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1  Elinor's happiness was not so great.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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2  But Edward had no turn for great men or barouches.
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3  The resemblance between her and her mother was strikingly great.
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4  She had great satisfaction in replying that she was going into Devonshire.
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5  Why, to be sure," said her husband, very gravely, "that would make great difference.
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6  A great deal too handsome, in my opinion, for any place THEY can ever afford to live in.
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7  He has seen a great deal of the world; has been abroad, has read, and has a thinking mind.
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8  High hills rose immediately behind, and at no great distance on each side; some of which were open downs, the others cultivated and woody.
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9  His mother wished to interest him in political concerns, to get him into parliament, or to see him connected with some of the great men of the day.
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10  Mrs. Jennings, Lady Middleton's mother, was a good-humoured, merry, fat, elderly woman, who talked a great deal, seemed very happy, and rather vulgar.
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11  Some more of the Careys came to dinner, and they had the pleasure of sitting down nearly twenty to table, which Sir John observed with great contentment.
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12  I have known a great deal of the trouble of annuities; for my mother was clogged with the payment of three to old superannuated servants by my father's will, and it is amazing how disagreeable she found it.
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13  They contained a noble piece of water; a sail on which was to a form a great part of the morning's amusement; cold provisions were to be taken, open carriages only to be employed, and every thing conducted in the usual style of a complete party of pleasure.
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14  But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it.
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15  Most grateful did Elinor feel to Lady Middleton for observing, at this moment, "that it rained very hard," though she believed the interruption to proceed less from any attention to her, than from her ladyship's great dislike of all such inelegant subjects of raillery as delighted her husband and mother.
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16  I have seen a great deal of him, have studied his sentiments and heard his opinion on subjects of literature and taste; and, upon the whole, I venture to pronounce that his mind is well-informed, enjoyment of books exceedingly great, his imagination lively, his observation just and correct, and his taste delicate and pure.
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17  She took the first opportunity of affronting her mother-in-law on the occasion, talking to her so expressively of her brother's great expectations, of Mrs. Ferrars's resolution that both her sons should marry well, and of the danger attending any young woman who attempted to DRAW HIM IN; that Mrs. Dashwood could neither pretend to be unconscious, nor endeavor to be calm.
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