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1  The worst of Bath was the number of its plain women.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
2  He hoped she might make some amends for the many very plain faces he was continually passing in the streets.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
3  He did not mean to say that there were no pretty women, but the number of the plain was out of all proportion.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
4  In all these cases, there are established usages which make everything plain and easy between landlord and tenant.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
5  He gave her a very plain, intelligible account of the whole; a narration in which she saw a great deal of most characteristic proceeding.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
6  I think very differently," answered Elizabeth, shortly; "an agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
7  Miss Carteret, with still less to say, was so plain and so awkward, that she would never have been tolerated in Camden Place but for her birth.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16