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1  The young people were all wild to see Lyme.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
2  I wish you had been there to see her behaviour.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
3  He is a man," said Lady Russell, "whom I have no wish to see.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
4  Elizabeth had been lately forming an intimacy, which she wished to see interrupted.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
5  She wished, however to see the Crofts, and was glad to be within when the visit was returned.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
6  I have really a curiosity to see the person who can give occasion to such directly opposite notions.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
7  I assure you, Miss Anne, it prevents my wishing to see them at our house so often as I otherwise should.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
8  It suited Mary best to think Henrietta the one preferred on the very account of Charles Hayter, whose pretensions she wished to see put an end to.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
9  He was not only to quit his home, but to see it in the hands of others; a trial of fortitude, which stronger heads than Sir Walter's have found too much.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
10  Captain Harville had never been in good health since a severe wound which he received two years before, and Captain Wentworth's anxiety to see him had determined him to go immediately to Lyme.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
11  They did not like each other, and no renewal of acquaintance now could do any good; and were Lady Russell to see them together, she might think that he had too much self-possession, and she too little.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
12  I wish you could persuade Mary not to be always fancying herself ill," was Charles's language; and, in an unhappy mood, thus spoke Mary: "I do believe if Charles were to see me dying, he would not think there was anything the matter with me.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
13  Had he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the independence which alone had been wanting.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
14  She hoped, on turning her head, to see the master of the house; but it proved to be one much less calculated for making matters easy--Charles Hayter, probably not at all better pleased by the sight of Captain Wentworth than Captain Wentworth had been by the sight of Anne.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
15  After a little succession of these sort of debates and consultations, it was settled between Charles and his two sisters, that he and Henrietta should just run down for a few minutes, to see their aunt and cousins, while the rest of the party waited for them at the top of the hill.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
16  The younger boy, a remarkable stout, forward child, of two years old, having got the door opened for him by some one without, made his determined appearance among them, and went straight to the sofa to see what was going on, and put in his claim to anything good that might be giving away.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
17  His acquittal was complete, his friendship warmly honoured, a lively interest excited for his friend, and his description of the fine country about Lyme so feelingly attended to by the party, that an earnest desire to see Lyme themselves, and a project for going thither was the consequence.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
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