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1  Elinor would not humour her by farther opposition.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 32
2  She merely observed that he was perfectly good humoured and friendly.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21
3  You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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4  He hunted and shot, and she humoured her children; and these were their only resources.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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5  But he is a pleasant, good humoured fellow, and has got the nicest little black bitch of a pointer I ever saw.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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6  She was short and plump, had a very pretty face, and the finest expression of good humour in it that could possibly be.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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7  Nothing was wanting on Mrs. Palmer's side that constant and friendly good humour could do, to make them feel themselves welcome.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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8  They were all in high spirits and good humour, eager to be happy, and determined to submit to the greatest inconveniences and hardships rather than be otherwise.
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9  As the Miss Dashwoods entered the drawing-room of the park the next day, at one door, Mrs. Palmer came running in at the other, looking as good humoured and merry as before.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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10  I do not believe," said Mrs. Dashwood, with a good humoured smile, "that Mr. Willoughby will be incommoded by the attempts of either of MY daughters towards what you call CATCHING him.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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11  His wife was not always out of humour, nor his home always uncomfortable; and in his breed of horses and dogs, and in sporting of every kind, he found no inconsiderable degree of domestic felicity.
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12  She was not in a humour, however, to regard it as an affront, and affecting to take no notice of what passed, by instantly talking of something else, she internally resolved henceforward to catch every opportunity of eyeing the hair and of satisfying herself, beyond all doubt, that it was exactly the shade of her own.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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13  She blushed at this hint; but it was even visibly gratifying to her; and after a ten minutes' interval of earnest thought, she came to her sister again, and said with great good humour, "Perhaps, Elinor, it WAS rather ill-judged in me to go to Allenham; but Mr. Willoughby wanted particularly to shew me the place; and it is a charming house, I assure you."
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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