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1  Her power with him was gone for ever.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
2  I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the rising sun.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
3  In such moments Anne had no power of saying to herself, "These rooms ought to belong only to us."
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
4  He had condescended to mortgage as far as he had the power, but he would never condescend to sell.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
5  Even if he did not come to Camden Place himself, it would be in her power to send an intelligible sentence by Captain Harville.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
6  Anne longed for the power of representing to them all what they were about, and of pointing out some of the evils they were exposing themselves to.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
7  Such confidence, powerful in its own warmth, and bewitching in the wit which often expressed it, must have been enough for Anne; but Lady Russell saw it very differently.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
8  If she could only have a few minutes conversation with him again, she fancied she should be satisfied; and as to the power of addressing him, she felt all over courage if the opportunity occurred.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
9  When she could command Mary's attention, Anne quietly tried to convince her that their father and Mr Elliot had not, for many years, been on such terms as to make the power of attempting an introduction at all desirable.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
10  These were thoughts, with their attendant visions, which occupied and flurried her too much to leave her any power of observation; and she passed along the room without having a glimpse of him, without even trying to discern him.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
11  She had something to suffer, perhaps, when they came into contact again, in seeing Anne restored to the rights of seniority, and the mistress of a very pretty landaulette; but she had a future to look forward to, of powerful consolation.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
12  Very good humoured, unaffected girls, indeed," said Mrs Croft, in a tone of calmer praise, such as made Anne suspect that her keener powers might not consider either of them as quite worthy of her brother; "and a very respectable family.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
13  She was as much convinced of his meaning to gain Anne in time as of his deserving her, and was beginning to calculate the number of weeks which would free him from all the remaining restraints of widowhood, and leave him at liberty to exert his most open powers of pleasing.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
14  Upon Lady Russell's appearance soon afterwards, the whole party was collected, and all that remained was to marshal themselves, and proceed into the Concert Room; and be of all the consequence in their power, draw as many eyes, excite as many whispers, and disturb as many people as they could.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
15  A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
16  In half a minute Charles was at the bottom of Union Street again, and the other two proceeding together: and soon words enough had passed between them to decide their direction towards the comparatively quiet and retired gravel walk, where the power of conversation would make the present hour a blessing indeed, and prepare it for all the immortality which the happiest recollections of their own future lives could bestow.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23