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1  The engagement between them is of a peculiar kind.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 56
2  Yes; and I told him we should not be able to keep our engagement.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 46
3  Pray make my excuses to Pratt for not keeping my engagement, and dancing with him to-night.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 47
4  Yes, he had no engagement at all for to-morrow; and her invitation was accepted with alacrity.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 55
5  Darcy was delighted with their engagement; his friend had given him the earliest information of it.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 58
6  She saw that he wanted to engage her on the old subject of his grievances, and she was in no humour to indulge him.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 41
7  Lady Catherine might see him in her way through town; and his engagement to Bingley of coming again to Netherfield must give way.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 57
8  The fishing scheme had been renewed the day before, and a positive engagement made of his meeting some of the gentlemen at Pemberley before noon.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 44
9  The Gardiners stayed a week at Longbourn; and what with the Phillipses, the Lucases, and the officers, there was not a day without its engagement.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25
10  Aye, no doubt; but that is what a governess will prevent, and if I had known your mother, I should have advised her most strenuously to engage one.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29
11  I am perfectly ready, I assure you, to keep my engagement; and when your sister is recovered, you shall, if you please, name the very day of the ball.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
12  Lady Catherine, it appeared, had actually taken the trouble of this journey from Rosings, for the sole purpose of breaking off her supposed engagement with Mr. Darcy.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 57
13  He scarcely needed an invitation to stay supper; and before he went away, an engagement was formed, chiefly through his own and Mrs. Bennet's means, for his coming next morning to shoot with her husband.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 55
14  Elizabeth was sitting with her mother and sisters, reflecting on what she had heard, and doubting whether she was authorised to mention it, when Sir William Lucas himself appeared, sent by his daughter, to announce her engagement to the family.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
15  Presuming however, that this studied avoidance spoke rather a momentary embarrassment than any dislike of the proposal, and seeing in her husband, who was fond of society, a perfect willingness to accept it, she ventured to engage for her attendance, and the day after the next was fixed on.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 44
16  One morning, about a week after Bingley's engagement with Jane had been formed, as he and the females of the family were sitting together in the dining-room, their attention was suddenly drawn to the window, by the sound of a carriage; and they perceived a chaise and four driving up the lawn.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 56
17  All that is required of you is, to assure to your daughter, by settlement, her equal share of the five thousand pounds secured among your children after the decease of yourself and my sister; and, moreover, to enter into an engagement of allowing her, during your life, one hundred pounds per annum.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 49
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