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1  Do not be offended, Elinor, if my praise of him is not in every thing equal to your sense of his merits.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
2  Your sister, I hope, cannot be offended," said he, "by the resemblance I have fancied between her and my poor disgraced relation.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 31
3  I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17
4  If the impertinent remarks of Mrs. Jennings are to be the proof of impropriety in conduct, we are all offending every moment of our lives.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
5  John Dashwood was greatly astonished; but his nature was calm, not open to provocation, and he never wished to offend anybody, especially anybody of good fortune.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 37
6  Marianne was afraid of offending, and said no more on the subject; but the kind of approbation which Elinor described as excited in him by the drawings of other people, was very far from that rapturous delight, which, in her opinion, could alone be called taste.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
7  I am much concerned to find there was anything in my behaviour last night that did not meet your approbation; and though I am quite at a loss to discover in what point I could be so unfortunate as to offend you, I entreat your forgiveness of what I can assure you to have been perfectly unintentional.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 29
8  Elinor, having once delivered her opinion on William's side, by which she offended Mrs. Ferrars and Fanny still more, did not see the necessity of enforcing it by any farther assertion; and Marianne, when called on for hers, offended them all, by declaring that she had no opinion to give, as she had never thought about it.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 34
9  Such was the sentence which, when misunderstood, so justly offended the delicate feelings of Mrs. Jennings; but after this narration of what really passed between Colonel Brandon and Elinor, while they stood at the window, the gratitude expressed by the latter on their parting, may perhaps appear in general, not less reasonably excited, nor less properly worded than if it had arisen from an offer of marriage.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 39