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1  Her friend was not in better spirits than herself.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
2  No, no; Frederick is not a man to whine and complain; he has too much spirit for that.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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3  If you value her conduct or happiness, infuse as much of your own spirit into her as you can.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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4  Anne could not refuse; but never had she sacrificed to politeness with a more suffering spirit.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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5  Indeed you are mistaken there, sir; I should never augur want of spirit from Captain Benwick's manners.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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6  While well, and happy, and properly attended to, she had great good humour and excellent spirits; but any indisposition sunk her completely.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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7  Your feelings may be the strongest," replied Anne, "but the same spirit of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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8  Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth, and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect.
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9  He was, at that time, a remarkably fine young man, with a great deal of intelligence, spirit, and brilliancy; and Anne an extremely pretty girl, with gentleness, modesty, taste, and feeling.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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10  Their dress had every advantage, their faces were rather pretty, their spirits extremely good, their manner unembarrassed and pleasant; they were of consequence at home, and favourites abroad.
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11  The two families were so continually meeting, so much in the habit of running in and out of each other's house at all hours, that it was rather a surprise to her to find Mary alone; but being alone, her being unwell and out of spirits was almost a matter of course.
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12  Lady Russell was fond of Bath, in short, and disposed to think it must suit them all; and as to her young friend's health, by passing all the warm months with her at Kellynch Lodge, every danger would be avoided; and it was in fact, a change which must do both health and spirits good.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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13  The party drove off in very good spirits; Sir Walter prepared with condescending bows for all the afflicted tenantry and cottagers who might have had a hint to show themselves, and Anne walked up at the same time, in a sort of desolate tranquillity, to the Lodge, where she was to spend the first week.
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14  A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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15  And with regard to Anne's dislike of Bath, she considered it as a prejudice and mistake arising, first, from the circumstance of her having been three years at school there, after her mother's death; and secondly, from her happening to be not in perfectly good spirits the only winter which she had afterwards spent there with herself.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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16  Her own spirits improved by change of place and subject, by being removed three miles from Kellynch; Mary's ailments lessened by having a constant companion, and their daily intercourse with the other family, since there was neither superior affection, confidence, nor employment in the cottage, to be interrupted by it, was rather an advantage.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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17  With a confidence in Mr Elliot's regard, more creditable to his feelings than his judgement, Mr Smith had appointed him the executor of his will; but Mr Elliot would not act, and the difficulties and distress which this refusal had heaped on her, in addition to the inevitable sufferings of her situation, had been such as could not be related without anguish of spirit, or listened to without corresponding indignation.
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