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1  Clear your character handsomely before her.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
2  Mr. Morland has behaved so very handsome, you know.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
3  "Mr. Morland has behaved vastly handsome indeed," said the gentle Mrs. Thorpe, looking anxiously at her daughter.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
4  Miss Tilney was in a very pretty spotted muslin, and I fancy, by what I can learn, that she always dresses very handsomely.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
5  That he was perfectly agreeable and good-natured, and altogether a very charming man, did not admit of a doubt, for he was tall and handsome, and Henry's father.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
6  He seemed to be about four or five and twenty, was rather tall, had a pleasing countenance, a very intelligent and lively eye, and, if not quite handsome, was very near it.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
7  Her eldest daughter had great personal beauty, and the younger ones, by pretending to be as handsome as their sister, imitating her air, and dressing in the same style, did very well.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
8  Here Catherine secretly acknowledged the power of love; for, though exceedingly fond of her brother, and partial to all his endowments, she had never in her life thought him handsome.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
9  Her intimacy there had made him seriously determine on her being handsomely legacied hereafter; and to speak of her therefore as the almost acknowledged future heiress of Fullerton naturally followed.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 30
10  He was a very handsome man, of a commanding aspect, past the bloom, but not past the vigour of life; and with his eye still directed towards her, she saw him presently address Mr. Tilney in a familiar whisper.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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11  The fireplace, where she had expected the ample width and ponderous carving of former times, was contracted to a Rumford, with slabs of plain though handsome marble, and ornaments over it of the prettiest English china.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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12  The walls were papered, the floor was carpeted; the windows were neither less perfect nor more dim than those of the drawing-room below; the furniture, though not of the latest fashion, was handsome and comfortable, and the air of the room altogether far from uncheerful.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21
13  Having heard the day before in Milsom Street that their elder brother, Captain Tilney, was expected almost every hour, she was at no loss for the name of a very fashionable-looking, handsome young man, whom she had never seen before, and who now evidently belonged to their party.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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14  At last, however, the door was closed upon the three females, and they set off at the sober pace in which the handsome, highly fed four horses of a gentleman usually perform a journey of thirty miles: such was the distance of Northanger from Bath, to be now divided into two equal stages.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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15  He was a stout young man of middling height, who, with a plain face and ungraceful form, seemed fearful of being too handsome unless he wore the dress of a groom, and too much like a gentleman unless he were easy where he ought to be civil, and impudent where he might be allowed to be easy.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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16  He looked as handsome and as lively as ever, and was talking with interest to a fashionable and pleasing-looking young woman, who leant on his arm, and whom Catherine immediately guessed to be his sister; thus unthinkingly throwing away a fair opportunity of considering him lost to her forever, by being married already.
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17  She was here shown successively into three large bed-chambers, with their dressing-rooms, most completely and handsomely fitted up; everything that money and taste could do, to give comfort and elegance to apartments, had been bestowed on these; and, being furnished within the last five years, they were perfect in all that would be generally pleasing, and wanting in all that could give pleasure to Catherine.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 23
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