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1  Elizabeth listened, wondered, doubted, and was impatient for more.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43
2  She seldom listened to anybody for more than half a minute, and never attended to Mary at all.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 39
3  Elizabeth listened as little as she could, but there was no escaping the frequent mention of Wickham's name.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 39
4  Elizabeth found the interest of the subject increase, and listened with all her heart; but the delicacy of it prevented further inquiry.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
5  Her daughters listened in silence to this effusion, sensible that any attempt to reason with her or soothe her would only increase the irritation.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
6  He listened to her with perfect indifference while she chose to entertain herself in this manner; and as his composure convinced her that all was safe, her wit flowed long.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
7  Elizabeth listened with delight to the happy, though modest hopes which Jane entertained of Mr. Bingley's regard, and said all in her power to heighten her confidence in it.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
8  She listened most attentively to all that passed between them, and gloried in every expression, every sentence of her uncle, which marked his intelligence, his taste, or his good manners.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43
9  Georgiana had the highest opinion in the world of Elizabeth; though at first she often listened with an astonishment bordering on alarm at her lively, sportive, manner of talking to her brother.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 61
10  Sir William Lucas, and his daughter Maria, a good-humoured girl, but as empty-headed as himself, had nothing to say that could be worth hearing, and were listened to with about as much delight as the rattle of the chaise.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 27
11  Jane listened with astonishment and concern; she knew not how to believe that Mr. Darcy could be so unworthy of Mr. Bingley's regard; and yet, it was not in her nature to question the veracity of a young man of such amiable appearance as Wickham.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
12  His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment, maintaining at the same time the most resolute composure of countenance, and, except in an occasional glance at Elizabeth, requiring no partner in his pleasure.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
13  Lady Catherine listened to half a song, and then talked, as before, to her other nephew; till the latter walked away from her, and making with his usual deliberation towards the pianoforte stationed himself so as to command a full view of the fair performer's countenance.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31
14  Nothing less than the complaisance of a courtier could have borne without anger such treatment; but Sir William's good breeding carried him through it all; and though he begged leave to be positive as to the truth of his information, he listened to all their impertinence with the most forbearing courtesy.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
15  Elizabeth listened in silence, but was not convinced; their behaviour at the assembly had not been calculated to please in general; and with more quickness of observation and less pliancy of temper than her sister, and with a judgement too unassailed by any attention to herself, she was very little disposed to approve them.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
16  Elizabeth, easy and unaffected, had been listened to with much more pleasure, though not playing half so well; and Mary, at the end of a long concerto, was glad to purchase praise and gratitude by Scotch and Irish airs, at the request of her younger sisters, who, with some of the Lucases, and two or three officers, joined eagerly in dancing at one end of the room.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
17  To these highflown expressions Elizabeth listened with all the insensibility of distrust; and though the suddenness of their removal surprised her, she saw nothing in it really to lament; it was not to be supposed that their absence from Netherfield would prevent Mr. Bingley's being there; and as to the loss of their society, she was persuaded that Jane must cease to regard it, in the enjoyment of his.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
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