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1  It is very fit they should have daughters' shares; and I am sure he has always been a very kind, liberal father to me.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
2  He ventured among them again, however, though his spirits certainly did not seem fit for the mirth of the party in general.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
3  By all means, my dear," cried Mrs Musgrove, "go home directly, and take care of yourself, that you may be fit for the evening.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
4  The Admiralty," he continued, "entertain themselves now and then, with sending a few hundred men to sea, in a ship not fit to be employed.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
5  You know," said she, "I cannot think him at all a fit match for Henrietta; and considering the alliances which the Musgroves have made, she has no right to throw herself away.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
6  She acknowledged it to be very fitting, that every little social commonwealth should dictate its own matters of discourse; and hoped, ere long, to become a not unworthy member of the one she was now transplanted into.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
7  I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do; but to a degree, I know it is the same with them all: they are all knocked about, and exposed to every climate, and every weather, till they are not fit to be seen.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
8  She was earnestly begged to return and dine, and give them all the rest of the day, but her spirits had been so long exerted that at present she felt unequal to more, and fit only for home, where she might be sure of being as silent as she chose.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22