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1  After walking several miles in a leisurely manner, and too busy to know anything about it, they found at last, on examining their watches, that it was time to be at home.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 58
2  They descended the hill, crossed the bridge, and drove to the door; and, while examining the nearer aspect of the house, all her apprehension of meeting its owner returned.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43
3  When they were gone, Elizabeth, as if intending to exasperate herself as much as possible against Mr. Darcy, chose for her employment the examination of all the letters which Jane had written to her since her being in Kent.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 34
4  To the girls, who could not listen to their cousin, and who had nothing to do but to wish for an instrument, and examine their own indifferent imitations of china on the mantelpiece, the interval of waiting appeared very long.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
5  The apothecary came, and having examined his patient, said, as might be supposed, that she had caught a violent cold, and that they must endeavour to get the better of it; advised her to return to bed, and promised her some draughts.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
6  The hall, the dining-room, and all its furniture, were examined and praised; and his commendation of everything would have touched Mrs. Bennet's heart, but for the mortifying supposition of his viewing it all as his own future property.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
7  When, after examining the mother, in whose countenance and deportment she soon found some resemblance of Mr. Darcy, she turned her eyes on the daughter, she could almost have joined in Maria's astonishment at her being so thin and so small.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29
8  Had his first appearance, or his resemblance to the picture they had just been examining, been insufficient to assure the other two that they now saw Mr. Darcy, the gardener's expression of surprise, on beholding his master, must immediately have told it.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43
9  But in spite of the certainty in which Elizabeth affected to place this point, as well as the still more interesting one of Bingley's being withheld from seeing Jane, she felt a solicitude on the subject which convinced her, on examination, that she did not consider it entirely hopeless.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25
10  She examined into their employments, looked at their work, and advised them to do it differently; found fault with the arrangement of the furniture; or detected the housemaid in negligence; and if she accepted any refreshment, seemed to do it only for the sake of finding out that Mrs. Collins's joints of meat were too large for her family.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30
11  In this perturbed state of mind, with thoughts that could rest on nothing, she walked on; but it would not do; in half a minute the letter was unfolded again, and collecting herself as well as she could, she again began the mortifying perusal of all that related to Wickham, and commanded herself so far as to examine the meaning of every sentence.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36