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1  For herself, she feared to move, lest she should be seen.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
2  While we were together, you know, there was nothing to be feared.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
3  Mary need not have feared her sister's being in any degree prepared for the news.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
4  "I am not yet so much changed," cried Anne, and stopped, fearing she hardly knew what misconstruction.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
5  I perfectly understand Mr Robinson's directions, and have no fears; and indeed, Mary, I cannot wonder at your husband.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
6  Yes," said Mrs Smith more doubtingly, "sometimes it may, though I fear its lessons are not often in the elevated style you describe.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
7  He had never had an idea of throwing himself off; he had feared that he was thrown off, but knew not why, and delicacy had kept him silent.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
8  How her temper and understanding might bear the investigation of his present keener time of life was another concern and rather a fearful one.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
9  To feel that she ought to be in better circumstances, that a little trouble in the right place might do it, and to fear that delay might be even weakening her claims, was hard to bear.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
10  This had been a proof of life, however, of service to her sister; and Henrietta, though perfectly incapable of being in the same room with Louisa, was kept, by the agitation of hope and fear, from a return of her own insensibility.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
11  He had not seen Louisa; and was so extremely fearful of any ill consequence to her from an interview, that he did not press for it at all; and, on the contrary, seemed to have a plan of going away for a week or ten days, till her head was stronger.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
12  Lady Russell was extremely sorry that such a measure should have been resorted to at all, wondered, grieved, and feared; and the affront it contained to Anne, in Mrs Clay's being of so much use, while Anne could be of none, was a very sore aggravation.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
13  Their last meeting had been most important in opening his feelings; she had derived from it a delightful conviction; but she feared from his looks, that the same unfortunate persuasion, which had hastened him away from the Concert Room, still governed.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
14  The following morning Anne was out with her friend, and for the first hour, in an incessant and fearful sort of watch for him in vain; but at last, in returning down Pulteney Street, she distinguished him on the right hand pavement at such a distance as to have him in view the greater part of the street.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
15  She must talk to Lady Russell, tell her, consult with her, and having done her best, wait the event with as much composure as possible; and after all, her greatest want of composure would be in that quarter of the mind which could not be opened to Lady Russell; in that flow of anxieties and fears which must be all to herself.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
16  In fact, Anne could never see the crape round his hat, without fearing that she was the inexcusable one, in attributing to him such imaginations; for though his marriage had not been very happy, still it had existed so many years that she could not comprehend a very rapid recovery from the awful impression of its being dissolved.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
17  When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme to preach patience and resignation to a young man whom she had never seen before; nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
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