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1  Anne found Captain Benwick getting near her, as soon as they were all fairly in the street.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
2  Morning visits are never fair by women at her time of life, who make themselves up so little.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
3  She saw Mrs Clay fairly off, therefore, before she began to talk of spending the morning in Rivers Street.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
4  But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will patronize in vain--which taste cannot tolerate--which ridicule will seize.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
5  His good looks and his rank had one fair claim on his attachment; since to them he must have owed a wife of very superior character to any thing deserved by his own.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
6  Sir Walter was not very wise; but still he had experience enough of the world to feel, that a more unobjectionable tenant, in all essentials, than Admiral Croft bid fair to be, could hardly offer.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
7  A short absence from home had left his fair one unguarded by his attentions at this critical period, and when he came back he had the pain of finding very altered manners, and of seeing Captain Wentworth.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
8  He would gladly weaken, by any fair means, whatever feelings or speculations concerning him might exist; and he went, therefore, to his brother's, meaning after a while to return to Kellynch, and act as circumstances might require.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
9  It would not be a great match for Henrietta, but Charles has a very fair chance, through the Spicers, of getting something from the Bishop in the course of a year or two; and you will please to remember, that he is the eldest son; whenever my uncle dies, he steps into very pretty property.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9