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1  I can listen no longer in silence.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
2  Her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
3  The Harvilles silenced all scruples; and, as much as they could, all gratitude.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
4  My dear Anne,--I make no apology for my silence, because I know how little people think of letters in such a place as Bath.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
5  Captain Wentworth, who had caught her up, knelt with her in his arms, looking on her with a face as pallid as her own, in an agony of silence.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
6  The comfort, the freedom, the gaiety of the room was over, hushed into cold composure, determined silence, or insipid talk, to meet the heartless elegance of her father and sister.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
7  Sir Walter, on being applied to, without actually withholding his consent, or saying it should never be, gave it all the negative of great astonishment, great coldness, great silence, and a professed resolution of doing nothing for his daughter.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
8  It was growing quite dusk, however, before they were in the neighbourhood of Uppercross, and there had been total silence among them for some time, Henrietta leaning back in the corner, with a shawl over her face, giving the hope of her having cried herself to sleep; when, as they were going up their last hill, Anne found herself all at once addressed by Captain Wentworth.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12