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1  He must not head mobs, or set the ton in dress.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  And you know you had Chapman to help you to dress.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  The new dress that my uncle was so good as to give me on my cousin's marriage.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  Lady Bertram was not certain of anybody's dress or anybody's place at supper but her own.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  And now I am afraid Campbell will be here before there is time to dress a steak, and we have no butcher at hand.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
6  A girl not out has always the same sort of dress: a close bonnet, for instance; looks very demure, and never says a word.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
7  Ecclesford and its theatre, with its arrangements and dresses, rehearsals and jokes, was his never-failing subject, and to boast of the past his only consolation.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
8  It is to be Lovers' Vows; and I am to be Count Cassel, and am to come in first with a blue dress and a pink satin cloak, and afterwards am to have another fine fancy suit, by way of a shooting-dress.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  Mrs. Norris offered to contrive his dress, Mr. Yates assured him that Anhalt's last scene with the Baron admitted a good deal of action and emphasis, and Mr. Rushworth undertook to count his speeches.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  The neatness and propriety of her dress was all that he would allow himself to commend in her presence, but upon her leaving the room again soon afterwards, he spoke of her beauty with very decided praise.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
11  It will be much the best place for her, so near Miss Lee, and not far from the girls, and close by the housemaids, who could either of them help to dress her, you know, and take care of her clothes, for I suppose you would not think it fair to expect Ellis to wait on her as well as the others.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
12  Everybody around her was gay and busy, prosperous and important; each had their object of interest, their part, their dress, their favourite scene, their friends and confederates: all were finding employment in consultations and comparisons, or diversion in the playful conceits they suggested.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  Mr. Yates, who was trying to make himself agreeable to Julia, found her gloom less impenetrable on any topic than that of his regret at her secession from their company; and Mr. Rushworth, having only his own part and his own dress in his head, had soon talked away all that could be said of either.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  I ought to have sent you an account of your cousin's first party, but I was lazy, and now it is too long ago; suffice it, that everything was just as it ought to be, in a style that any of her connexions must have been gratified to witness, and that her own dress and manners did her the greatest credit.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
15  Anxious not to appear unhappy, she soon recovered herself; and wiping away her tears, was able to notice and admire all the striking parts of his dress; listening with reviving spirits to his cheerful hopes of being on shore some part of every day before they sailed, and even of getting her to Spithead to see the sloop.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
16  After sitting some time longer, a candle was obtained; but as there was still no appearance of tea, nor, from Betsey's reports from the kitchen, much hope of any under a considerable period, William determined to go and change his dress, and make the necessary preparations for his removal on board directly, that he might have his tea in comfort afterwards.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
17  Everything was now in a regular train: theatre, actors, actresses, and dresses, were all getting forward; but though no other great impediments arose, Fanny found, before many days were past, that it was not all uninterrupted enjoyment to the party themselves, and that she had not to witness the continuance of such unanimity and delight as had been almost too much for her at first.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
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