MASTER in Classic Quotes

1  We were always encouraged to read, and had all the masters that were necessary.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29

2  Mrs. Reynolds respect for Elizabeth seemed to increase on this intimation of her knowing her master.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

3  This room was my late master's favourite room, and these miniatures are just as they used to be then.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

4  The coach, therefore, took them the first stage of their journey, and brought its master back to Longbourn.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 48

5  She longed to inquire of the housekeeper whether her master was really absent, but had not the courage for it.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

6  Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practised more, and could have the advantage of a London master.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31

7  I have heard much of your master's fine person," said Mrs. Gardiner, looking at the picture; "it is a handsome face.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

8  My fingers," said Elizabeth, "do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31

9  She wished, she feared that the master of the house might be amongst them; and whether she wished or feared it most, she could scarcely determine.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 45

10  He is the best landlord, and the best master," said she, "that ever lived; not like the wild young men nowadays, who think of nothing but themselves.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

11  You may possibly wonder why all this was not told you last night; but I was not then master enough of myself to know what could or ought to be revealed.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

12  The housekeeper at Netherfield had received orders to prepare for the arrival of her master, who was coming down in a day or two, to shoot there for several weeks.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 53

13  The housekeeper came forward, and told them it was a picture of a young gentleman, the son of her late master's steward, who had been brought up by him at his own expense.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

14  Calling back the servant, therefore, she commissioned him, though in so breathless an accent as made her almost unintelligible, to fetch his master and mistress home instantly.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 46

15  Mr. Gardiner, whose manners were very easy and pleasant, encouraged her communicativeness by his questions and remarks; Mrs. Reynolds, either by pride or attachment, had evidently great pleasure in talking of her master and his sister.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

16  Mr. Gardiner, highly amused by the kind of family prejudice to which he attributed her excessive commendation of her master, soon led again to the subject; and she dwelt with energy on his many merits as they proceeded together up the great staircase.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

17  Had his first appearance, or his resemblance to the picture they had just been examining, been insufficient to assure the other two that they now saw Mr. Darcy, the gardener's expression of surprise, on beholding his master, must immediately have told it.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43