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1  You shall find me as stubborn as you can be artful.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
2  Marianne was rejoiced to find her sister so easily pleased.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
3  But I am very glad to find it was only my own fancy, and that you really do not blame me.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 24
4  But Mrs. Dashwood could find explanations whenever she wanted them, which at least satisfied herself.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
5  Yes, yes, Mr. Impudence, I know that very well, and I was determined to find out WHERE you had been to.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
6  Elinor could not deny the truth of this, and she tried to find in it a motive sufficient for their silence.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
7  Marianne was astonished to find how much the imagination of her mother and herself had outstripped the truth.
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8  This was quite a new idea to Mrs. Dashwood; she had never been used to find wit in the inattention of any one, and could not help looking with surprise at them both.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
9  I did myself the honour of calling in Berkeley Street last Tuesday, and very much regretted that I was not fortunate enough to find yourselves and Mrs. Jennings at home.
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10  Luckily Lady Middleton's mother had arrived at Barton within the last hour, and as she was a very cheerful agreeable woman, he hoped the young ladies would not find it so very dull as they might imagine.
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11  In Colonel Brandon alone, of all her new acquaintance, did Elinor find a person who could in any degree claim the respect of abilities, excite the interest of friendship, or give pleasure as a companion.
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12  That good lady, however, saw only that Marianne had received a letter from Willoughby, which appeared to her a very good joke, and which she treated accordingly, by hoping, with a laugh, that she would find it to her liking.
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13  I met Mrs. Jennings in Bond Street," said he, after the first salutation, "and she encouraged me to come on; and I was the more easily encouraged, because I thought it probable that I might find you alone, which I was very desirous of doing.
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14  I'm sure there's a vast many smart beaux in Exeter; but you know, how could I tell what smart beaux there might be about Norland; and I was only afraid the Miss Dashwoods might find it dull at Barton, if they had not so many as they used to have.
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15  Pleased to find herself more comfortably situated in that particular than she had expected, Elinor was very willing to compound for the want of much real enjoyment from any of their evening parties, which, whether at home or abroad, formed only for cards, could have little to amuse her.
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16  But still I might not have believed it, for where the mind is perhaps rather unwilling to be convinced, it will always find something to support its doubts, if I had not, when the servant let me in today, accidentally seen a letter in his hand, directed to Mr. Willoughby in your sister's writing.
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17  I am much concerned to find there was anything in my behaviour last night that did not meet your approbation; and though I am quite at a loss to discover in what point I could be so unfortunate as to offend you, I entreat your forgiveness of what I can assure you to have been perfectly unintentional.
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