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1  My line of conduct will be more direct.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
2  Indeed, Mrs Smith, we must not expect to get real information in such a line.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
3  It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
4  Neither Lady Russell nor Mr Elliot could admire the letter; but it did all that was wanted, in bringing three lines of scrawl from the Dowager Viscountess.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
5  You have only knowledge enough of the language to translate at sight these inverted, transposed, curtailed Italian lines, into clear, comprehensible, elegant English.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
6  Instead of pushing his fortune in the line marked out for the heir of the house of Elliot, he had purchased independence by uniting himself to a rich woman of inferior birth.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
7  A man is in greater danger in the navy of being insulted by the rise of one whose father, his father might have disdained to speak to, and of becoming prematurely an object of disgust himself, than in any other line.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
8  Hers is a line for seeing human nature; and she has a fund of good sense and observation, which, as a companion, make her infinitely superior to thousands of those who having only received 'the best education in the world,' know nothing worth attending to.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17