INVITE in Classic Quotes

1  It is on your account that he has been so frequently invited this week.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26

2  I thought too ill of him to invite him to Pemberley, or admit his society in town.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

3  Her prudent mother, occupied by the same ideas, forbore to invite him to sit by herself.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 54

4  Mrs. Bennet invited him to dine with them; but, with many expressions of concern, he confessed himself engaged elsewhere.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 55

5  When the gentlemen rose to go away, Mrs. Bennet was mindful of her intended civility, and they were invited and engaged to dine at Longbourn in a few days time.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 53

6  By tea-time, however, the dose had been enough, and Mr. Bennet was glad to take his guest into the drawing-room again, and, when tea was over, glad to invite him to read aloud to the ladies.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14

7  They will then join his regiment, unless they are first invited to Longbourn; and I understand from Mrs. Gardiner, that my niece is very desirous of seeing you all before she leaves the South.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 50

8  An invitation to dinner was soon afterwards dispatched; and already had Mrs. Bennet planned the courses that were to do credit to her housekeeping, when an answer arrived which deferred it all.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

9  When they parted, Lady Catherine, with great condescension, wished them a good journey, and invited them to come to Hunsford again next year; and Miss de Bourgh exerted herself so far as to curtsey and hold out her hand to both.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 37

10  He was directly invited to join their party, but he declined it, observing that he could imagine but two motives for their choosing to walk up and down the room together, with either of which motives his joining them would interfere.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

11  From the further disadvantage of Lydia's society she was of course carefully kept, and though Mrs. Wickham frequently invited her to come and stay with her, with the promise of balls and young men, her father would never consent to her going.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 61

12  Her look and manners were open, cheerful, and engaging as ever, but without any symptom of peculiar regard, and I remained convinced from the evening's scrutiny, that though she received his attentions with pleasure, she did not invite them by any participation of sentiment.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

13  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

14  After lamenting it, however, at some length, she had the consolation that Mr. Bingley would be soon down again and soon dining at Longbourn, and the conclusion of all was the comfortable declaration, that though he had been invited only to a family dinner, she would take care to have two full courses.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21

15  The conversation soon turned upon fishing; and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civility, to fish there as often as he chose while he continued in the neighbourhood, offering at the same time to supply him with fishing tackle, and pointing out those parts of the stream where there was usually most sport.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

16  After sitting long enough to admire every article of furniture in the room, from the sideboard to the fender, to give an account of their journey, and of all that had happened in London, Mr. Collins invited them to take a stroll in the garden, which was large and well laid out, and to the cultivation of which he attended himself.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28

17  Jane recollected herself soon, and putting the letter away, tried to join with her usual cheerfulness in the general conversation; but Elizabeth felt an anxiety on the subject which drew off her attention even from Wickham; and no sooner had he and his companion taken leave, than a glance from Jane invited her to follow her up stairs.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21