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1  I never in my life saw anything more elegant than their dresses.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
2  Nor was her respect for him, though it made her more quiet, at all likely to make her more elegant.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 60
3  Lady Catherine is far from requiring that elegance of dress in us which becomes herself and her daughter.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29
4  A man in distressed circumstances has not time for all those elegant decorums which other people may observe.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 27
5  Her figure was elegant, and she walked well; but Darcy, at whom it was all aimed, was still inflexibly studious.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
6  I do assure you, sir, that I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
7  Mrs. Gardiner, who was several years younger than Mrs. Bennet and Mrs. Phillips, was an amiable, intelligent, elegant woman, and a great favourite with all her Longbourn nieces.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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8  The envelope contained a sheet of elegant, little, hot-pressed paper, well covered with a lady's fair, flowing hand; and Elizabeth saw her sister's countenance change as she read it, and saw her dwelling intently on some particular passages.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
9  The marriage of a daughter, which had been the first object of her wishes since Jane was sixteen, was now on the point of accomplishment, and her thoughts and her words ran wholly on those attendants of elegant nuptials, fine muslins, new carriages, and servants.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 50
10  I really do not think Georgiana Darcy has her equal for beauty, elegance, and accomplishments; and the affection she inspires in Louisa and myself is heightened into something still more interesting, from the hope we dare entertain of her being hereafter our sister.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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11  He protested that, except Lady Catherine and her daughter, he had never seen a more elegant woman; for she had not only received him with the utmost civility, but even pointedly included him in her invitation for the next evening, although utterly unknown to her before.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
12  The rooms were lofty and handsome, and their furniture suitable to the fortune of its proprietor; but Elizabeth saw, with admiration of his taste, that it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43
13  Elizabeth passed the chief of the night in her sister's room, and in the morning had the pleasure of being able to send a tolerable answer to the inquiries which she very early received from Mr. Bingley by a housemaid, and some time afterwards from the two elegant ladies who waited on his sisters.
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14  On reaching the spacious lobby above they were shown into a very pretty sitting-room, lately fitted up with greater elegance and lightness than the apartments below; and were informed that it was but just done to give pleasure to Miss Darcy, who had taken a liking to the room when last at Pemberley.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43
15  They repulsed every attempt of Mrs. Bennet at conversation, and by so doing threw a languor over the whole party, which was very little relieved by the long speeches of Mr. Collins, who was complimenting Mr. Bingley and his sisters on the elegance of their entertainment, and the hospitality and politeness which had marked their behaviour to their guests.
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16  To such perseverance in wilful self-deception Elizabeth would make no reply, and immediately and in silence withdrew; determined, if he persisted in considering her repeated refusals as flattering encouragement, to apply to her father, whose negative might be uttered in such a manner as to be decisive, and whose behaviour at least could not be mistaken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19