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1  The old well-established grievance of duty against will, parent against child, was the cause of all.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
2  She treated her therefore, with all the indulgent fondness of a parent towards a favourite child on the last day of its holidays.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 30
3  The whole family perceived it, and Mrs. Dashwood, attributing it to some want of liberality in his mother, sat down to table indignant against all selfish parents.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17
4  Lucy, who was hardly less anxious to please one parent than the other, thought the boys were both remarkably tall for their age, and could not conceive that there could be the smallest difference in the world between them; and Miss Steele, with yet greater address gave it, as fast as she could, in favour of each.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 34