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1  I mention it, because it is the living which I ought to have had.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 52
2  Lady Catherine de Bourgh," she replied, "has very lately given him a living.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
3  Their manner of living, even when the restoration of peace dismissed them to a home, was unsettled in the extreme.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 61
4  Their other engagements were few, as the style of living in the neighbourhood in general was beyond Mr. Collins's reach.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30
5  They returned, therefore, in good spirits to Longbourn, the village where they lived, and of which they were the principal inhabitants.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
6  It was not known that Wickham had a single relationship with whom he kept up any connection, and it was certain that he had no near one living.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 48
7  For about three years I heard little of him; but on the decease of the incumbent of the living which had been designed for him, he applied to me again by letter for the presentation.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35
8  She was more alive to the disgrace which her want of new clothes must reflect on her daughter's nuptials, than to any sense of shame at her eloping and living with Wickham a fortnight before they took place.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 50
9  Mr. Collins moreover adds, 'I am truly rejoiced that my cousin Lydia's sad business has been so well hushed up, and am only concerned that their living together before the marriage took place should be so generally known.'
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 57
10  Certain it is, that the living became vacant two years ago, exactly as I was of an age to hold it, and that it was given to another man; and no less certain is it, that I cannot accuse myself of having really done anything to deserve to lose it.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
11  But when she read and re-read with the closest attention, the particulars immediately following of Wickham's resigning all pretensions to the living, of his receiving in lieu so considerable a sum as three thousand pounds, again was she forced to hesitate.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36
12  What Wickham had said of the living was fresh in her memory, and as she recalled his very words, it was impossible not to feel that there was gross duplicity on one side or the other; and, for a few moments, she flattered herself that her wishes did not err.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36
13  The subjection in which his father had brought him up had given him originally great humility of manner; but it was now a good deal counteracted by the self-conceit of a weak head, living in retirement, and the consequential feelings of early and unexpected prosperity.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
14  Such formidable accounts of her ladyship, and her manner of living, quite frightened Maria Lucas who had been little used to company, and she looked forward to her introduction at Rosings with as much apprehension as her father had done to his presentation at St. James's.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29
15  Miss Bennet accepted her aunt's invitation with pleasure; and the Bingleys were no otherwise in her thoughts at the same time, than as she hoped by Caroline's not living in the same house with her brother, she might occasionally spend a morning with her, without any danger of seeing him.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25
16  His being such a charming young man, and so rich, and living but three miles from them, were the first points of self-gratulation; and then it was such a comfort to think how fond the two sisters were of Jane, and to be certain that they must desire the connection as much as she could do.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
17  A fortunate chance had recommended him to Lady Catherine de Bourgh when the living of Hunsford was vacant; and the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
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