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1  I could wish the stairs were handsome.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
2  I shall very soon think him handsome, Elinor, if I do not now.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
3  It would be an excellent match, for HE was rich, and SHE was handsome.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
4  He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
5  Yes; and the set of breakfast china is twice as handsome as what belongs to this house.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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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  At present, I know him so well, that I think him really handsome; or at least, almost so.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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8  The house was large and handsome; and the Middletons lived in a style of equal hospitality and elegance.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
9  It chiefly consisted of household linen, plate, china, and books, with a handsome pianoforte of Marianne's.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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10  'Twill be a fine thing to have her married so young to be sure," said she, "and I hear he is quite a beau, and prodigious handsome.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21
11  Lady Middleton was not more than six or seven and twenty; her face was handsome, her figure tall and striking, and her address graceful.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
12  Oh, don't be so sly before us," said Mrs. Palmer; "for we know all about it, I assure you; and I admire your taste very much, for I think he is extremely handsome.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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13  She is a monstrous lucky girl to get him, upon my honour; not but that he is much more lucky in getting her, because she is so very handsome and agreeable, that nothing can be good enough for her.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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14  At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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15  Mrs. John Dashwood saw the packages depart with a sigh: she could not help feeling it hard that as Mrs. Dashwood's income would be so trifling in comparison with their own, she should have any handsome article of furniture.
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16  His appearance however was not unpleasing, in spite of his being in the opinion of Marianne and Margaret an absolute old bachelor, for he was on the wrong side of five and thirty; but though his face was not handsome, his countenance was sensible, and his address was particularly gentlemanlike.
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17  Elinor and her mother rose up in amazement at their entrance, and while the eyes of both were fixed on him with an evident wonder and a secret admiration which equally sprung from his appearance, he apologized for his intrusion by relating its cause, in a manner so frank and so graceful that his person, which was uncommonly handsome, received additional charms from his voice and expression.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
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