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1  That young lady, you know, that we have all been so concerned for.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
2  The lady could not but yield to such joint entreaties, and promise to stay.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
3  A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
4  But first of all, you must tell me the name of the young lady I am going to talk about.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
5  I wish Frederick would spread a little more canvass, and bring us home one of these young ladies to Kellynch.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
6  But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
7  On going down to breakfast the next morning, she found there had just been a decent pretence on the lady's side of meaning to leave them.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
8  But surely you may put off this old lady till to-morrow: she is not so near her end, I presume, but that she may hope to see another day.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
9  But now, the matter has taken the strangest turn of all; for this young lady, the same Miss Musgrove, instead of being to marry Frederick, is to marry James Benwick.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
10  Her distress returned, however, on perceiving smiles and intelligent glances pass between two or three of the lady visitors, as if they believed themselves quite in the secret.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
11  He defended himself; though professing that he would never willingly admit any ladies on board a ship of his, excepting for a ball, or a visit, which a few hours might comprehend.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
12  Upon hearing how long a walk the young people had engaged in, they kindly offered a seat to any lady who might be particularly tired; it would save her a full mile, and they were going through Uppercross.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
13  A house was never taken good care of, Mr Shepherd observed, without a lady: he did not know, whether furniture might not be in danger of suffering as much where there was no lady, as where there were many children.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
14  By this time the report of the accident had spread among the workmen and boatmen about the Cobb, and many were collected near them, to be useful if wanted, at any rate, to enjoy the sight of a dead young lady, nay, two dead young ladies, for it proved twice as fine as the first report.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
15  The minutiae of the business Anne could not attempt to understand; even Captain Wentworth did not seem admitted to perfect confidence here; but that there had been a withdrawing on the gentleman's side, and a relenting on the lady's, and that they were now very glad to be together again, did not admit a doubt.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
16  There was a numerous family; but the only two grown up, excepting Charles, were Henrietta and Louisa, young ladies of nineteen and twenty, who had brought from school at Exeter all the usual stock of accomplishments, and were now like thousands of other young ladies, living to be fashionable, happy, and merry.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
17  She only roused herself from the broodings of this restless agitation, to let Mrs Clay know that she had been seen with Mr Elliot three hours after his being supposed to be out of Bath, for having watched in vain for some intimation of the interview from the lady herself, she determined to mention it, and it seemed to her there was guilt in Mrs Clay's face as she listened.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
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