HIGH in Classic Quotes

1  Her report was highly favourable.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

2  I have a high respect for your nerves.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

3  Mrs. Bennet, all amazement, though flattered by having a guest of such high importance, received her with the utmost politeness.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 56

4  One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think highly of himself.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5

5  When they left the high road for the lane to Hunsford, every eye was in search of the Parsonage, and every turning expected to bring it in view.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28

6  It was a fortnight since Mrs. Bennet had been downstairs; but on this happy day she again took her seat at the head of her table, and in spirits oppressively high.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 50

7  Choose properly, choose a gentlewoman for my sake; and for your own, let her be an active, useful sort of person, not brought up high, but able to make a small income go a good way.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19

8  Mrs. Bennet treasured up the hint, and trusted that she might soon have two daughters married; and the man whom she could not bear to speak of the day before was now high in her good graces.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15

9  Elizabeth, as they drove along, watched for the first appearance of Pemberley Woods with some perturbation; and when at length they turned in at the lodge, her spirits were in a high flutter.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

10  Its windows opening to the ground, admitted a most refreshing view of the high woody hills behind the house, and of the beautiful oaks and Spanish chestnuts which were scattered over the intermediate lawn.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 45

11  She had high animal spirits, and a sort of natural self-consequence, which the attention of the officers, to whom her uncle's good dinners, and her own easy manners recommended her, had increased into assurance.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

12  It was a large, handsome stone building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills; and in front, a stream of some natural importance was swelled into greater, but without any artificial appearance.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

13  The indirect boast; for you are really proud of your defects in writing, because you consider them as proceeding from a rapidity of thought and carelessness of execution, which, if not estimable, you think at least highly interesting.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10

14  On entering the drawing-room she found the whole party at loo, and was immediately invited to join them; but suspecting them to be playing high she declined it, and making her sister the excuse, said she would amuse herself for the short time she could stay below, with a book.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

15  Mr. Collins and Charlotte were both standing at the gate in conversation with the ladies; and Sir William, to Elizabeth's high diversion, was stationed in the doorway, in earnest contemplation of the greatness before him, and constantly bowing whenever Miss de Bourgh looked that way.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28

16  A fortunate chance had recommended him to Lady Catherine de Bourgh when the living of Hunsford was vacant; and the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15

17  As a clergyman, moreover, I feel it my duty to promote and establish the blessing of peace in all families within the reach of my influence; and on these grounds I flatter myself that my present overtures are highly commendable, and that the circumstance of my being next in the entail of Longbourn estate will be kindly overlooked on your side, and not lead you to reject the offered olive-branch.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13