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1  There is a sort of domestic enjoyment to be known even in a crowd, and this you had.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
2  It deranged his best plan of domestic happiness, his best hope of keeping Sir Walter single by the watchfulness which a son-in-law's rights would have given.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
3  I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as--if I may be allowed the expression--so long as you have an object.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
4  Anne, judging from her own temperament, would have deemed such a domestic hurricane a bad restorative of the nerves, which Louisa's illness must have so greatly shaken.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
5  She gloried in being a sailor's wife, but she must pay the tax of quick alarm for belonging to that profession which is, if possible, more distinguished in its domestic virtues than in its national importance.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
6  For thirteen years had she been doing the honours, and laying down the domestic law at home, and leading the way to the chaise and four, and walking immediately after Lady Russell out of all the drawing-rooms and dining-rooms in the country.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
7  He was steady, observant, moderate, candid; never run away with by spirits or by selfishness, which fancied itself strong feeling; and yet, with a sensibility to what was amiable and lovely, and a value for all the felicities of domestic life, which characters of fancied enthusiasm and violent agitation seldom really possess.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
8  This was against her; but on the other hand, he spent so much of his time at Uppercross, that in removing thence she might be considered rather as leaving him behind, than as going towards him; and, upon the whole, she believed she must, on this interesting question, be the gainer, almost as certainly as in her change of domestic society, in leaving poor Mary for Lady Russell.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11