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1  She had lately lost sight even of her father and sister and Bath.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
2  A little beauty, and a few smiles, and a few compliments to the navy, and I am a lost man.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
3  You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
4  This is full of papers belonging to him, to my husband; a small portion only of what I had to look over when I lost him.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
5  of Uppercross, in the county of Somerset, and by inserting most accurately the day of the month on which he had lost his wife.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
6  I could not bring it into play; it was overwhelmed, buried, lost in those earlier feelings which I had been smarting under year after year.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
7  Their mutual friend answered for the satisfaction which a visit from Miss Elliot would give Mrs Smith, and Anne therefore lost no time in going.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
8  The part which provoked her most, was that in all this waste of foresight and caution, she should have lost the right moment for seeing whether he saw them.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
9  The Crofts were to have possession at Michaelmas; and as Sir Walter proposed removing to Bath in the course of the preceding month, there was no time to be lost in making every dependent arrangement.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
10  There he had seen everything to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost; and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
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  The conclusion of the whole was, that if the woman who had been sensible of Captain Wentworth's merits could be allowed to prefer another man, there was nothing in the engagement to excite lasting wonder; and if Captain Wentworth lost no friend by it, certainly nothing to be regretted.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
13  It is something for a woman to be assured, in her eight-and-twentieth year, that she has not lost one charm of earlier youth; but the value of such homage was inexpressibly increased to Anne, by comparing it with former words, and feeling it to be the result, not the cause of a revival of his warm attachment.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
14  As soon as he could, he began to talk to her of Lyme, wanting to compare opinions respecting the place, but especially wanting to speak of the circumstance of their happening to be guests in the same inn at the same time; to give his own route, understand something of hers, and regret that he should have lost such an opportunity of paying his respects to her.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
15  Anne had a moment's astonishment on the subject herself; but it was soon lost in the pleasanter feelings which sprang from the sight of all the ingenious contrivances and nice arrangements of Captain Harville, to turn the actual space to the best account, to supply the deficiencies of lodging-house furniture, and defend the windows and doors against the winter storms to be expected.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11