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1  We were always encouraged to read, and had all the masters that were necessary.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29
2  On such encouragement to ask, Elizabeth was forced to put it out of her power, by running away.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 51
3  It was an encouragement of vice; and had I been the rector of Longbourn, I should very strenuously have opposed it.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 57
4  But the misfortune of speaking with bitterness is a most natural consequence of the prejudices I had been encouraging.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 40
5  This he considered sufficient encouragement; and the avowal of all that he felt, and had long felt for her, immediately followed.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 34
6  Mr. Bennet indeed said little; but the ladies were ready enough to talk, and Mr. Collins seemed neither in need of encouragement, nor inclined to be silent himself.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
7  She had never perceived, while the regiment was in Hertfordshire, that Lydia had any partiality for him; but she was convinced that Lydia wanted only encouragement to attach herself to anybody.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 46
8  To work in this garden was one of his most respectable pleasures; and Elizabeth admired the command of countenance with which Charlotte talked of the healthfulness of the exercise, and owned she encouraged it as much as possible.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28
9  Mr. Gardiner, whose manners were very easy and pleasant, encouraged her communicativeness by his questions and remarks; Mrs. Reynolds, either by pride or attachment, had evidently great pleasure in talking of her master and his sister.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43
10  His behaviour to herself could now have had no tolerable motive; he had either been deceived with regard to her fortune, or had been gratifying his vanity by encouraging the preference which she believed she had most incautiously shown.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36
11  This information, however, startled Mrs. Bennet; she would have been glad to be equally satisfied that her daughter had meant to encourage him by protesting against his proposals, but she dared not believe it, and could not help saying so.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
12  Mrs. Phillips's vulgarity was another, and perhaps a greater, tax on his forbearance; and though Mrs. Phillips, as well as her sister, stood in too much awe of him to speak with the familiarity which Bingley's good humour encouraged, yet, whenever she did speak, she must be vulgar.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 60
13  She rated his abilities much higher than any of the others; there was a solidity in his reflections which often struck her, and though by no means so clever as herself, she thought that if encouraged to read and improve himself by such an example as hers, he might become a very agreeable companion.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
14  Without supposing them, from what she saw, to be very seriously in love, their preference of each other was plain enough to make her a little uneasy; and she resolved to speak to Elizabeth on the subject before she left Hertfordshire, and represent to her the imprudence of encouraging such an attachment.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25
15  He was anxious to avoid the notice of his cousins, from a conviction that if they saw him depart, they could not fail to conjecture his design, and he was not willing to have the attempt known till its success might be known likewise; for though feeling almost secure, and with reason, for Charlotte had been tolerably encouraging, he was comparatively diffident since the adventure of Wednesday.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
16  The next morning, however, made an alteration; for in a quarter of an hour's tete-a-tete with Mrs. Bennet before breakfast, a conversation beginning with his parsonage-house, and leading naturally to the avowal of his hopes, that a mistress might be found for it at Longbourn, produced from her, amid very complaisant smiles and general encouragement, a caution against the very Jane he had fixed on.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
17  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.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
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