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1  He is very far from being independent.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
2  She could easily conceive that marriage might not be immediately in their power; for though Willoughby was independent, there was no reason to believe him rich.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
3  Lady Middleton had the advantage of being able to spoil her children all the year round, while Sir John's independent employments were in existence only half the time.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
4  His want of spirits, of openness, and of consistency, were most usually attributed to his want of independence, and his better knowledge of Mrs. Ferrars's disposition and designs.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
5  It has been, and is, and probably will always be a heavy misfortune to me, that I have had no necessary business to engage me, no profession to give me employment, or afford me any thing like independence.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
6  Your mother will secure to you, in time, that independence you are so anxious for; it is her duty, and it will, it must ere long become her happiness to prevent your whole youth from being wasted in discontent.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
7  To him therefore the succession to the Norland estate was not so really important as to his sisters; for their fortune, independent of what might arise to them from their father's inheriting that property, could be but small.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
8  I thought it my duty," said he, "independent of my feelings, to give her the option of continuing the engagement or not, when I was renounced by my mother, and stood to all appearance without a friend in the world to assist me.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 49
9  The independence she settled on Robert, through resentment against you, has put it in his power to make his own choice; and she has actually been bribing one son with a thousand a-year, to do the very deed which she disinherited the other for intending to do.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 49
10  Her thoughts were silently fixed on the irreparable injury which too early an independence and its consequent habits of idleness, dissipation, and luxury, had made in the mind, the character, the happiness, of a man who, to every advantage of person and talents, united a disposition naturally open and honest, and a feeling, affectionate temper.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 44
11  Their visitors, except those from Barton Park, were not many; for, in spite of Sir John's urgent entreaties that they would mix more in the neighbourhood, and repeated assurances of his carriage being always at their service, the independence of Mrs. Dashwood's spirit overcame the wish of society for her children; and she was resolute in declining to visit any family beyond the distance of a walk.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9