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 Current Search - owe in Pride and Prejudice
1  But your family owe me nothing.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 58
2  They owed the restoration of Lydia, her character, every thing, to him.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 52
3  He owed a good deal in town, but his debts of honour were still more formidable.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 48
4  But your arts and allurements may, in a moment of infatuation, have made him forget what he owes to himself and to all his family.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 56
5  The dinner too in its turn was highly admired; and he begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cooking was owing.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
6  She owed her greatest relief to her friend Miss Lucas, who often joined them, and good-naturedly engaged Mr. Collins's conversation to herself.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
7  She was then but fifteen, which must be her excuse; and after stating her imprudence, I am happy to add, that I owed the knowledge of it to herself.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35
8  And I do not think it of light importance that he should have attentive and conciliatory manners towards everybody, especially towards those to whom he owes his preferment.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
9  It was owing to him, to his reserve and want of proper consideration, that Wickham's character had been so misunderstood, and consequently that he had been received and noticed as he was.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 52
10  This is not the sort of happiness which a man would in general wish to owe to his wife; but where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 42
11  The motive professed was his conviction of its being owing to himself that Wickham's worthlessness had not been so well known as to make it impossible for any young woman of character to love or confide in him.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 52
12  Elizabeth, particularly, who knew that her mother owed to the latter the preservation of her favourite daughter from irremediable infamy, was hurt and distressed to a most painful degree by a distinction so ill applied.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 53
13  Her mother's ungraciousness, made the sense of what they owed him more painful to Elizabeth's mind; and she would, at times, have given anything to be privileged to tell him that his kindness was neither unknown nor unfelt by the whole of the family.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 54
14  Mrs. Bennet, to whose apartment they all repaired, after a few minutes' conversation together, received them exactly as might be expected; with tears and lamentations of regret, invectives against the villainous conduct of Wickham, and complaints of her own sufferings and ill-usage; blaming everybody but the person to whose ill-judging indulgence the errors of her daughter must principally be owing.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 47