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1  "You scarcely touch me," said he.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  Mr. Norris, a friend of her brother-in-law, with scarcely any private fortune, and Miss Frances fared yet worse.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
3  Her ill opinion of him was founded chiefly on observations, which, for her cousins' sake, she could scarcely dare mention to their father.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  Well might his sister, believing as she really did that his opinion of Fanny Price was scarcely beyond her merits, rejoice in her prospects.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
5  My dear Fanny," replied Edmund, scarcely hearing her to the end, "let us not, any of us, be judged by what we appeared at that period of general folly.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
6  Mrs. Rushworth proposed that the chaise should be taken also; but this was scarcely received as an amendment: the young ladies neither smiled nor spoke.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  The conclusion was scarcely intelligible from increasing fright, for she found that Mr. Crawford, under pretence of receiving the note, was coming towards her.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
8  Afraid of everybody, ashamed of herself, and longing for the home she had left, she knew not how to look up, and could scarcely speak to be heard, or without crying.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
9  At first he scarcely said anything; his looks only expressed his extreme surprise and vexation, and he walked to the gate and stood there, without seeming to know what to do.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
10  The removal of the bookcase from before the billiard-room door struck him especially, but he had scarcely more than time to feel astonished at all this, before there were sounds from the billiard-room to astonish him still farther.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  Love such as his, in a man like himself, must with perseverance secure a return, and at no great distance; and he had so much delight in the idea of obliging her to love him in a very short time, that her not loving him now was scarcely regretted.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
12  The Doctor was very fond of eating, and would have a good dinner every day; and Mrs. Grant, instead of contriving to gratify him at little expense, gave her cook as high wages as they did at Mansfield Park, and was scarcely ever seen in her offices.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
13  Mr. Rushworth hardly knew what to do with so much meaning; but by looking, as he really felt, most exceedingly pleased with Sir Thomas's good opinion, and saying scarcely anything, he did his best towards preserving that good opinion a little longer.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
14  As children, their sister had been always very fond of them; but, as her own marriage had been soon followed by the death of their common parent, which left them to the care of a brother of their father, of whom Mrs. Grant knew nothing, she had scarcely seen them since.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  Simple as such an engagement might appear in other eyes, it had novelty and importance in hers, for excepting the day at Sotherton, she had scarcely ever dined out before; and though now going only half a mile, and only to three people, still it was dining out, and all the little interests of preparation were enjoyments in themselves.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
16  Nothing was fixed on; but Henry Crawford was full of ideas and projects, and, generally speaking, whatever he proposed was immediately approved, first by her, and then by Mr. Rushworth, whose principal business seemed to be to hear the others, and who scarcely risked an original thought of his own beyond a wish that they had seen his friend Smith's place.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
17  Tom repeated his resolution of going to him early on the morrow; and though Julia, who had scarcely opened her lips before, observed, in a sarcastic manner, and with a glance first at Maria and then at Edmund, that "the Mansfield theatricals would enliven the whole neighbourhood exceedingly," Edmund still held his peace, and shewed his feelings only by a determined gravity.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
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