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1  Her feelings as she read were scarcely to be defined.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36

2  I will read you the passage which particularly hurts me.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21

3  "It is from Miss Bingley," said Jane, and then read it aloud.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

4  We were always encouraged to read, and had all the masters that were necessary.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29

5  She could not win him, however, to any conversation; he merely answered her question, and read on.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

6  By tea-time, however, the dose had been enough, and Mr. Bennet was glad to take his guest into the drawing-room again, and, when tea was over, glad to invite him to read aloud to the ladies.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14

7  She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might bring, was incapable of attending to the sense of the one before her eyes.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36

8  Elizabeth instantly read her feelings, and at that moment solicitude for Wickham, resentment against his enemies, and everything else, gave way before the hope of Jane's being in the fairest way for happiness.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

9  She then read the first sentence aloud, which comprised the information of their having just resolved to follow their brother to town directly, and of their meaning to dine in Grosvenor Street, where Mr. Hurst had a house.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21

10  But from the severity of that blame which was last night so liberally bestowed, respecting each circumstance, I shall hope to be in the future secured, when the following account of my actions and their motives has been read.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

11  The envelope contained a sheet of elegant, little, hot-pressed paper, well covered with a lady's fair, flowing hand; and Elizabeth saw her sister's countenance change as she read it, and saw her dwelling intently on some particular passages.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21

12  But when she read and re-read with the closest attention, the particulars immediately following of Wickham's resigning all pretensions to the living, of his receiving in lieu so considerable a sum as three thousand pounds, again was she forced to hesitate.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36

13  By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5

14  Again she read on; but every line proved more clearly that the affair, which she had believed it impossible that any contrivance could so represent as to render Mr. Darcy's conduct in it less than infamous, was capable of a turn which must make him entirely blameless throughout the whole.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36

15  She rated his abilities much higher than any of the others; there was a solidity in his reflections which often struck her, and though by no means so clever as herself, she thought that if encouraged to read and improve himself by such an example as hers, he might become a very agreeable companion.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22

16  I write without any intention of paining you, or humbling myself, by dwelling on wishes which, for the happiness of both, cannot be too soon forgotten; and the effort which the formation and the perusal of this letter must occasion, should have been spared, had not my character required it to be written and read.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

17  Charlotte's first letters were received with a good deal of eagerness; there could not but be curiosity to know how she would speak of her new home, how she would like Lady Catherine, and how happy she would dare pronounce herself to be; though, when the letters were read, Elizabeth felt that Charlotte expressed herself on every point exactly as she might have foreseen.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26