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1  No, he had been in Devonshire a fortnight.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
2  Oh, yes; he had been staying a fortnight with us.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22
3  We have now been here almost a fortnight, and yet he does not come.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
4  Early in February, within a fortnight from the receipt of Willoughby's letter, Elinor had the painful office of informing her sister that he was married.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 32
5  I begged him to exert himself for fear you should suspect what was the matter; but it made him so melancholy, not being able to stay more than a fortnight with us, and seeing me so much affected.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22
6  Sir John Middleton, who called on them every day for the first fortnight, and who was not in the habit of seeing much occupation at home, could not conceal his amazement on finding them always employed.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
7  Eliza had confessed to me, though most reluctantly, the name of her lover; and when he returned to town, which was within a fortnight after myself, we met by appointment, he to defend, I to punish his conduct.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 31
8  For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resuscitation of Edward, she had one again.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 50
9  Mrs. Palmer was so well at the end of a fortnight, that her mother felt it no longer necessary to give up the whole of her time to her; and, contenting herself with visiting her once or twice a day, returned from that period to her own home, and her own habits, in which she found the Miss Dashwoods very ready to resume their former share.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 37