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1  The error is plain enough," said the less courteous Edmund; "such girls are ill brought up.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Her awe of her uncle, and her dread of taking a liberty with him, made it instantly plain to her what she had to do.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLV
3  It was plain that he could have no serious views, no true attachment, by fixing himself in a situation which he must know she would never stoop to.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  Her brother was not handsome: no, when they first saw him he was absolutely plain, black and plain; but still he was the gentleman, with a pleasing address.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
5  But he was still talking on, describing his affection, soliciting a return, and, finally, in words so plain as to bear but one meaning even to her, offering himself, hand, fortune, everything, to her acceptance.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  In a quiet way, very little attended to, she paid her tribute of admiration to Miss Crawford's beauty; but as she still continued to think Mr. Crawford very plain, in spite of her two cousins having repeatedly proved the contrary, she never mentioned him.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
7  The second meeting proved him not so very plain: he was plain, to be sure, but then he had so much countenance, and his teeth were so good, and he was so well made, that one soon forgot he was plain; and after a third interview, after dining in company with him at the Parsonage, he was no longer allowed to be called so by anybody.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V