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1  No, no," cried Marianne, "misery such as mine has no pride.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 29
2  Elinor felt all the reasonableness of the idea, and it gave fresh misery to her reflections.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 43
3  Miss Dashwood, you cannot have an idea of the comfort it gives me to look back on my own misery.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 44
4  You had rather look out for misery for Marianne, and guilt for poor Willoughby, than an apology for the latter.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
5  In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
6  Elinor's compassion for him increased, as she had reason to suspect that the misery of disappointed love had already been known to him.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
7  From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 31
8  She resigned herself at first to all the misery of her situation; and happy had it been if she had not lived to overcome those regrets which the remembrance of me occasioned.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 31
9  And then rising, she went away to join Marianne, whom she found, as she expected, in her own room, leaning, in silent misery, over the small remains of a fire, which, till Elinor's entrance, had been her only light.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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10  To quit the neighbourhood of Norland was no longer an evil; it was an object of desire; it was a blessing, in comparison of the misery of continuing her daughter-in-law's guest; and to remove for ever from that beloved place would be less painful than to inhabit or visit it while such a woman was its mistress.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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11  The attachment, from which against honour, against feeling, against every better interest he had outwardly torn himself, now, when no longer allowable, governed every thought; and the connection, for the sake of which he had, with little scruple, left her sister to misery, was likely to prove a source of unhappiness to himself of a far more incurable nature.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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12  With difficulty however could she prevent her from following him herself; and to persuade her to check her agitation, to wait, at least, with the appearance of composure, till she might speak to him with more privacy and more effect, was impossible; for Marianne continued incessantly to give way in a low voice to the misery of her feelings, by exclamations of wretchedness.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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13  In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony to be at Cleveland; and as she returned by a different circuit to the house, feeling all the happy privilege of country liberty, of wandering from place to place in free and luxurious solitude, she resolved to spend almost every hour of every day while she remained with the Palmers, in the indulgence of such solitary rambles.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 42