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1  It is a sort of pain, too, which is new to me.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
2  Lady Russell quite bores one with her new publications.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
3  The father and mother were in the old English style, and the young people in the new.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
4  Her brother and sister came back delighted with their new acquaintance, and their visit in general.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
5  She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
6  I really cannot be plaguing myself for ever with all the new poems and states of the nation that come out.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
7  There was nothing less for Lady Russell to do, than to admit that she had been pretty completely wrong, and to take up a new set of opinions and of hopes.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
8  Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
9  On quitting the Cobb, they all went in-doors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think capable of accommodating so many.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
10  He drew, he varnished, he carpentered, he glued; he made toys for the children; he fashioned new netting-needles and pins with improvements; and if everything else was done, sat down to his large fishing-net at one corner of the room.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
11  The sight of Mrs Clay in such favour, and of Anne so overlooked, was a perpetual provocation to her there; and vexed her as much when she was away, as a person in Bath who drinks the water, gets all the new publications, and has a very large acquaintance, has time to be vexed.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
12  There was too much wind to make the high part of the new Cobb pleasant for the ladies, and they agreed to get down the steps to the lower, and all were contented to pass quietly and carefully down the steep flight, excepting Louisa; she must be jumped down them by Captain Wentworth.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
13  It was painful to look upon their deserted grounds, and still worse to anticipate the new hands they were to fall into; and to escape the solitariness and the melancholy of so altered a village, and be out of the way when Admiral and Mrs Croft first arrived, she had determined to make her own absence from home begin when she must give up Anne.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
14  The first heedless scheme had been to go in the morning and return at night; but to this Mr Musgrove, for the sake of his horses, would not consent; and when it came to be rationally considered, a day in the middle of November would not leave much time for seeing a new place, after deducting seven hours, as the nature of the country required, for going and returning.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
15  The Musgroves could hardly be more ready to invite than he to come, particularly in the morning, when he had no companion at home, for the Admiral and Mrs Croft were generally out of doors together, interesting themselves in their new possessions, their grass, and their sheep, and dawdling about in a way not endurable to a third person, or driving out in a gig, lately added to their establishment.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9