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1  We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
2  She therefore satisfied herself with common-place remarks or quiet attention, and the Admiral had it all his own way.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
3  She had thought only of avoiding Captain Wentworth; but an escape from being appealed to as umpire was now added to the advantages of a quiet evening.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
4  "We shall never agree upon this question," Captain Harville was beginning to say, when a slight noise called their attention to Captain Wentworth's hitherto perfectly quiet division of the room.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
5  He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet, serious, and retiring manners, and a decided taste for reading, and sedentary pursuits.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
6  With a great deal of quiet observation, and a knowledge, which she often wished less, of her father's character, she was sensible that results the most serious to his family from the intimacy were more than possible.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
7  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
8  Would they only have gone away, and left her in the quiet possession of that room it would have been her cure; but to have them all standing or waiting around her was distracting, and in desperation, she said she would go home.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
9  One morning, about this time Charles Musgrove and Captain Wentworth being gone a-shooting together, as the sisters in the Cottage were sitting quietly at work, they were visited at the window by the sisters from the Mansion-house.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
10  Anne, attending with all the strength and zeal, and thought, which instinct supplied, to Henrietta, still tried, at intervals, to suggest comfort to the others, tried to quiet Mary, to animate Charles, to assuage the feelings of Captain Wentworth.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
11  No, these were noises which belonged to the winter pleasures; her spirits rose under their influence; and like Mrs Musgrove, she was feeling, though not saying, that after being long in the country, nothing could be so good for her as a little quiet cheerfulness.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
12  There was too much wind to make the high part of the new Cobb pleasant for the ladies, and they agreed to get down the steps to the lower, and all were contented to pass quietly and carefully down the steep flight, excepting Louisa; she must be jumped down them by Captain Wentworth.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
13  The Admiral's kind urgency came in support of his wife's; they would not be refused; they compressed themselves into the smallest possible space to leave her a corner, and Captain Wentworth, without saying a word, turned to her, and quietly obliged her to be assisted into the carriage.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
14  She hoped when clear of Milsom Street to have her curiosity gratified; but she was still obliged to wait, for the Admiral had made up his mind not to begin till they had gained the greater space and quiet of Belmont; and as she was not really Mrs Croft, she must let him have his own way.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
15  I hope I am as fond of my child as any mother, but I do not know that I am of any more use in the sick-room than Charles, for I cannot be always scolding and teazing the poor child when it is ill; and you saw, this morning, that if I told him to keep quiet, he was sure to begin kicking about.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
16  But Mrs Musgrove, who got Anne near her on purpose to thank her most cordially, again and again, for all her attentions to them, concluded a short recapitulation of what she had suffered herself by observing, with a happy glance round the room, that after all she had gone through, nothing was so likely to do her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
17  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
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