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1  I have observed it all my life.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
2  And, as to procuring a dispensation, there could be no difficulty at his time of life, and with his character.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
3  How her temper and understanding might bear the investigation of his present keener time of life was another concern and rather a fearful one.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
4  Mrs Musgrove had not a word to say in dissent; she could not accuse herself of having ever called them anything in the whole course of her life.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
5  So far went his understanding; and his vanity supplied a little additional soothing, in the Admiral's situation in life, which was just high enough, and not too high.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
6  But he was confident that he should soon be rich: full of life and ardour, he knew that he should soon have a ship, and soon be on a station that would lead to everything he wanted.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
7  Charles "had never seen a pleasanter man in his life; and from what he had once heard Captain Wentworth himself say, was very sure that he had not made less than twenty thousand pounds by the war."
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
8  Yes, I made the best of it; I always do: but I was very far from well at the time; and I do not think I ever was so ill in my life as I have been all this morning: very unfit to be left alone, I am sure.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
9  When you come to a frigate, of course, you are more confined; though any reasonable woman may be perfectly happy in one of them; and I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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10  Excepting one short period of her life, she had never, since the age of fourteen, never since the loss of her dear mother, known the happiness of being listened to, or encouraged by any just appreciation or real taste.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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11  It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has been neither ill health nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
12  No second attachment, the only thoroughly natural, happy, and sufficient cure, at her time of life, had been possible to the nice tone of her mind, the fastidiousness of her taste, in the small limits of the society around them.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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13  This had been a proof of life, however, of service to her sister; and Henrietta, though perfectly incapable of being in the same room with Louisa, was kept, by the agitation of hope and fear, from a return of her own insensibility.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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14  I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do; but to a degree, I know it is the same with them all: they are all knocked about, and exposed to every climate, and every weather, till they are not fit to be seen.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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15  He was steady, observant, moderate, candid; never run away with by spirits or by selfishness, which fancied itself strong feeling; and yet, with a sensibility to what was amiable and lovely, and a value for all the felicities of domestic life, which characters of fancied enthusiasm and violent agitation seldom really possess.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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16  --She had humoured, or softened, or concealed his failings, and promoted his real respectability for seventeen years; and though not the very happiest being in the world herself, had found enough in her duties, her friends, and her children, to attach her to life, and make it no matter of indifference to her when she was called on to quit them.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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17  Such were Elizabeth Elliot's sentiments and sensations; such the cares to alloy, the agitations to vary, the sameness and the elegance, the prosperity and the nothingness of her scene of life; such the feelings to give interest to a long, uneventful residence in one country circle, to fill the vacancies which there were no habits of utility abroad, no talents or accomplishments for home, to occupy.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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