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1  Anything was possible, anything might be defied rather than suspense.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
2  Anne was startled and confused; but after standing in a moment's suspense, was obliged, and not sorry to be obliged, to hurry away.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
3  After the usual period of suspense, the usual sounds of approach were heard, and "Mr and Mrs Charles Musgrove" were ushered into the room.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
4  Her feelings made her speak low; and Captain Wentworth, hearing only in part, and probably not having Dick Musgrove at all near his thoughts, looked rather in suspense, and as if waiting for more.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
5  How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth; and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his for ever.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
6  All the surprise and suspense, and every other painful part of the morning dissipated by this conversation, she re-entered the house so happy as to be obliged to find an alloy in some momentary apprehensions of its being impossible to last.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
7  That had begun to operate in the very hour of first meeting her in Bath; that had returned, after a short suspension, to ruin the concert; and that had influenced him in everything he had said and done, or omitted to say and do, in the last four-and-twenty hours.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23