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1  You know I have a pretty good spirit of my own.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27
2  Miss Tilney was in a very pretty spotted muslin, and I fancy, by what I can learn, that she always dresses very handsomely.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
3  I am sorry it happens so, for Mrs. Allen thought them very pretty kind of young people; and you were sadly out of luck too in your Isabella.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 29
4  Miss Tilney had a good figure, a pretty face, and a very agreeable countenance; and her air, though it had not all the decided pretension, the resolute stylishness of Miss Thorpe's, had more real elegance.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
5  He says so in this letter, says that he as good as made you an offer, and that you received his advances in the kindest way; and now he wants me to urge his suit, and say all manner of pretty things to you.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
6  , which Catherine heard with pleasure, and answered with all the pretty expressions she could command; and, as the first proof of amity, she was soon invited to accept an arm of the eldest Miss Thorpe, and take a turn with her about the room.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
7  For Catherine, however, the peculiar object of the general's curiosity, and his own speculations, he had yet something more in reserve, and the ten or fifteen thousand pounds which her father could give her would be a pretty addition to Mr. Allen's estate.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 30
8  Thorpe, most happy to be on speaking terms with a man of General Tilney's importance, had been joyfully and proudly communicative; and being at that time not only in daily expectation of Morland's engaging Isabella, but likewise pretty well resolved upon marrying Catherine himself, his vanity induced him to represent the family as yet more wealthy than his vanity and avarice had made him believe them.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 30