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1  She had given him up to oblige others.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
2  Lady Russell felt obliged to oppose her dear Anne's known wishes.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
3  I am much obliged to you," was her answer, "but I am not going with them.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
4  She had already been obliged to tell Lady Russell that Louisa Musgrove was to marry Captain Benwick.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
5  Anne was startled and confused; but after standing in a moment's suspense, was obliged, and not sorry to be obliged, to hurry away.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
6  Anne would have been particularly obliged to her cousin, if he would have walked by her side all the way to Camden Place, without saying a word.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
7  Anne was obliged to turn away, to rise, to walk to a distant table, and, leaning there in pretended employment, try to subdue the feelings this picture excited.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
8  She was very much obliged to him, but declined it all, repeating her conviction, that the rain would come to nothing at present, and adding, "I am only waiting for Mr Elliot."
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
9  She was sure of a pleasant reception; and her friend seemed this morning particularly obliged to her for coming, seemed hardly to have expected her, though it had been an appointment.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
10  But these measures, however good in themselves, were insufficient for the real extent of the evil, the whole of which Sir Walter found himself obliged to confess to her soon afterwards.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
11  They talked for a few minutes more; the improvement held; he even looked down towards the bench, as if he saw a place on it well worth occupying; when at that moment a touch on her shoulder obliged Anne to turn round.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
12  She was obliged to kneel down by the sofa, and remain there to satisfy her patient; and thus they continued a few minutes, when, to her very great satisfaction, she heard some other person crossing the little vestibule.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
13  He was standing by himself at a printshop window, with his hands behind him, in earnest contemplation of some print, and she not only might have passed him unseen, but was obliged to touch as well as address him before she could catch his notice.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
14  The Admiral's kind urgency came in support of his wife's; they would not be refused; they compressed themselves into the smallest possible space to leave her a corner, and Captain Wentworth, without saying a word, turned to her, and quietly obliged her to be assisted into the carriage.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
15  She hoped when clear of Milsom Street to have her curiosity gratified; but she was still obliged to wait, for the Admiral had made up his mind not to begin till they had gained the greater space and quiet of Belmont; and as she was not really Mrs Croft, she must let him have his own way.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
16  While Captains Wentworth and Harville led the talk on one side of the room, and by recurring to former days, supplied anecdotes in abundance to occupy and entertain the others, it fell to Anne's lot to be placed rather apart with Captain Benwick; and a very good impulse of her nature obliged her to begin an acquaintance with him.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
17  The lawyer plods, quite care-worn; the physician is up at all hours, and travelling in all weather; and even the clergyman--" she stopt a moment to consider what might do for the clergyman;--"and even the clergyman, you know is obliged to go into infected rooms, and expose his health and looks to all the injury of a poisonous atmosphere.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
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