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1  I wish his friends would propose it to him.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
2  Elizabeth had nothing to propose of deeper efficacy.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
3  If we were not related, it would not signify; but as cousins, she would feel scrupulous as to any proposal of ours.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
4  Then, forgetting to think of it, she was at the other end of the room, beautifying a nosegay; then, she ate her cold meat; and then she was well enough to propose a little walk.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
5  It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
6  The Crofts were to have possession at Michaelmas; and as Sir Walter proposed removing to Bath in the course of the preceding month, there was no time to be lost in making every dependent arrangement.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
7  He was cut short by the eager attacks of the little boys, clinging to him like an old friend, and declaring he should not go; and being too much engrossed by proposals of carrying them away in his coat pockets, &c.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
8  On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual; and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
9  He was to come to breakfast, but not at the Cottage, though that had been proposed at first; but then he had been pressed to come to the Great House instead, and he seemed afraid of being in Mrs Charles Musgrove's way, on account of the child, and therefore, somehow, they hardly knew how, it ended in Charles's being to meet him to breakfast at his father's.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7