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1  Thomas's intelligence seemed over.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 47
2  And even Sir John's joking intelligence must have had some weight.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 23
3  The intelligence however, which SHE would not give, soon flowed from another quarter.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 34
4  His eyes want all that spirit, that fire, which at once announce virtue and intelligence.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
5  It was a look, however, very well bestowed, for it relieved her own feelings, and gave no intelligence to him.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 41
6  But he was now married; and she condemned her heart for the lurking flattery, which so much heightened the pain of the intelligence.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 48
7  Even Lady Middleton took the trouble of being delighted, which was putting herself rather out of her way; and as for the Miss Steeles, especially Lucy, they had never been so happy in their lives as this intelligence made them.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25
8  She had taken care to have the intelligence conveyed to herself, as soon as it was known that the ceremony was over, as she was desirous that Marianne should not receive the first notice of it from the public papers, which she saw her eagerly examining every morning.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 32
9  By that time, Marianne was rather better, and her mother leaving her to the care of Margaret and the maid, returned to Elinor, who, though still much disordered, had so far recovered the use of her reason and voice as to be just beginning an inquiry of Thomas, as to the source of his intelligence.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 47
10  As soon as they returned to the carriage, Mrs. Jennings was eager for information; but as Elinor wished to spread as little as possible intelligence that had in the first place been so unfairly obtained, she confined herself to the brief repetition of such simple particulars, as she felt assured that Lucy, for the sake of her own consequence, would choose to have known.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 38
11  Of Edward, or at least of some of his concerns, she now received intelligence from Colonel Brandon, who had been into Dorsetshire lately; and who, treating her at once as the disinterested friend of Mr. Ferrars, and the kind of confidant of himself, talked to her a great deal of the parsonage at Delaford, described its deficiencies, and told her what he meant to do himself towards removing them.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 42
12  Marianne's eagerness to be gone declared her dependence on finding him there; and Elinor was resolved not only upon gaining every new light as to his character which her own observation or the intelligence of others could give her, but likewise upon watching his behaviour to her sister with such zealous attention, as to ascertain what he was and what he meant, before many meetings had taken place.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26