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1  Nay, when I read a letter of his, I cannot help giving him the preference even over Wickham, much as I value the impudence and hypocrisy of my son-in-law.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 57
2  I had not been long in Hertfordshire, before I saw, in common with others, that Bingley preferred your elder sister to any other young woman in the country.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35
3  It originated in Mrs. Gardiner, who, fatigued by the exercise of the morning, found Elizabeth's arm inadequate to her support, and consequently preferred her husband's.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43
4  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
5  Resignation to inevitable evils is the duty of us all; the peculiar duty of a young man who has been so fortunate as I have been in early preferment; and I trust I am resigned.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
6  Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36
7  His behaviour to herself could now have had no tolerable motive; he had either been deceived with regard to her fortune, or had been gratifying his vanity by encouraging the preference which she believed she had most incautiously shown.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36
8  Miss Bingley was engrossed by Mr. Darcy, her sister scarcely less so; and as for Mr. Hurst, by whom Elizabeth sat, he was an indolent man, who lived only to eat, drink, and play at cards; who, when he found her to prefer a plain dish to a ragout, had nothing to say to her.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
9  Without supposing them, from what she saw, to be very seriously in love, their preference of each other was plain enough to make her a little uneasy; and she resolved to speak to Elizabeth on the subject before she left Hertfordshire, and represent to her the imprudence of encouraging such an attachment.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25
10  His own father did not long survive mine, and within half a year from these events, Mr. Wickham wrote to inform me that, having finally resolved against taking orders, he hoped I should not think it unreasonable for him to expect some more immediate pecuniary advantage, in lieu of the preferment, by which he could not be benefited.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35
11  She lost all concern for him in finding herself thus selected as the object of such idle and frivolous gallantry; and while she steadily repressed it, could not but feel the reproof contained in his believing, that however long, and for whatever cause, his attentions had been withdrawn, her vanity would be gratified, and her preference secured at any time by their renewal.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 41