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1  Mrs Clay has been using it at my recommendation, and you see what it has done for her.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
2  I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable; and I should recommend Miss Elliot to be on her guard with respect to her flower garden.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
3  Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly anybody to love; but the encounter of such lavish recommendations could not fail.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
4  In the centre of some of the best preserves in the kingdom, surrounded by three great proprietors, each more careful and jealous than the other; and to two of the three at least, Charles Hayter might get a special recommendation.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
5  While he was not obliged to say that he believed her to have been right in originally dividing them, he was ready to say almost everything else in her favour, and as for Mrs Smith, she had claims of various kinds to recommend her quickly and permanently.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
6  Captain Benwick listened attentively, and seemed grateful for the interest implied; and though with a shake of the head, and sighs which declared his little faith in the efficacy of any books on grief like his, noted down the names of those she recommended, and promised to procure and read them.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
7  In Lady Russell's view, it was perfectly natural that Mr Elliot, at a mature time of life, should feel it a most desirable object, and what would very generally recommend him among all sensible people, to be on good terms with the head of his family; the simplest process in the world of time upon a head naturally clear, and only erring in the heyday of youth.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16