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1  Could Elinor have listened to her without interruption from the others, she would have described every room in the house with equal delight.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
2  Mrs. Dashwood would have interrupted her instantly with soothing tenderness, had not Elinor, who really wished to hear her sister's unbiased opinion, by an eager sign, engaged her silence.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 47
3  Here they were interrupted by the entrance of a third person, and Elinor withdrew to think it all over in private, to wish success to her friend, and yet in wishing it, to feel a pang for Willoughby.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 45
4  They were interrupted by the entrance of Margaret; and Elinor was then at liberty to think over the representations of her mother, to acknowledge the probability of many, and hope for the justice of all.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
5  Edward was allowed to retain the privilege of first comer, and Colonel Brandon therefore walked every night to his old quarters at the Park; from whence he usually returned in the morning, early enough to interrupt the lovers' first tete-a-tete before breakfast.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 49
6  In such employments as these they were interrupted soon after breakfast the next day by the entrance of their landlord, who called to welcome them to Barton, and to offer them every accommodation from his own house and garden in which theirs might at present be deficient.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
7  Most grateful did Elinor feel to Lady Middleton for observing, at this moment, "that it rained very hard," though she believed the interruption to proceed less from any attention to her, than from her ladyship's great dislike of all such inelegant subjects of raillery as delighted her husband and mother.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12