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1  This disposition on your side is rather alarming.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
2  I had rather, ten thousand times rather, get out now, and walk back to them.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
3  "It is all one to me," replied Thorpe rather angrily; and instantly turning his horse, they were on their way back to Bath.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
4  With these feelings, she rather dreaded than sought for the first view of that well-known spire which would announce her within twenty miles of home.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 29
5  By him the whole matter seemed entirely forgotten; and all the rest of his conversation, or rather talk, began and ended with himself and his own concerns.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
6  The formidable Henry soon followed her into the room, and the only difference in his behaviour to her was that he paid her rather more attention than usual.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25
7  He seemed to be about four or five and twenty, was rather tall, had a pleasing countenance, a very intelligent and lively eye, and, if not quite handsome, was very near it.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
8  Henry was alone in it; and his immediate hope of her having been undisturbed by the tempest, with an arch reference to the character of the building they inhabited, was rather distressing.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22
9  Yet, though longing to make her acquainted with her happiness, she cheerfully submitted to the wish of Mr. Allen, which took them rather early away, and her spirits danced within her, as she danced in her chair all the way home.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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10  This would have been an error in judgment, great though not uncommon, from which one of the other sex rather than her own, a brother rather than a great aunt, might have warned her, for man only can be aware of the insensibility of man towards a new gown.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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11  She could neither sit still nor employ herself for ten minutes together, walking round the garden and orchard again and again, as if nothing but motion was voluntary; and it seemed as if she could even walk about the house rather than remain fixed for any time in the parlour.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 30
12  Her tenderness for her friend seemed rather the first feeling of her heart; but that at such a moment was allowable; and once she gave her lover a flat contradiction, and once she drew back her hand; but Catherine remembered Henry's instructions, and placed it all to judicious affection.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
13  This compliment, delightful as it was, produced severe mortification to the lady; and in giving her denial, she expressed her sorrow on the occasion so very much as if she really felt it, that had Thorpe, who joined her just afterwards, been half a minute earlier, he might have thought her sufferings rather too acute.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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14  But to her utter amazement she found that to proceed along the room was by no means the way to disengage themselves from the crowd; it seemed rather to increase as they went on, whereas she had imagined that when once fairly within the door, they should easily find seats and be able to watch the dances with perfect convenience.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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15  Everything indeed relative to this important journey was done, on the part of the Morlands, with a degree of moderation and composure, which seemed rather consistent with the common feelings of common life, than with the refined susceptibilities, the tender emotions which the first separation of a heroine from her family ought always to excite.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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16  This declaration brought on a loud and overpowering reply, of which no part was very distinct, except the frequent exclamations, amounting almost to oaths, which adorned it, and Catherine was left, when it ended, with rather a strengthened belief of there being a great deal of wine drunk in Oxford, and the same happy conviction of her brother's comparative sobriety.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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17  His loss was not now what it had been while the general was at home; it lessened their gaiety, but did not ruin their comfort; and the two girls agreeing in occupation, and improving in intimacy, found themselves so well sufficient for the time to themselves, that it was eleven o'clock, rather a late hour at the abbey, before they quitted the supper-room on the day of Henry's departure.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 28
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