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1  Admiral Croft's manners were not quite of the tone to suit Lady Russell, but they delighted Anne.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
2  You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
3  His tone, his expressions, his choice of subject, his knowing where to stop; it was all the operation of a sensible, discerning mind.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
4  He, who had ever boasted of being an Elliot, and whose feelings, as to connection, were only too strict to suit the unfeudal tone of the present day.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
5  She wanted more vigorous measures, a more complete reformation, a quicker release from debt, a much higher tone of indifference for everything but justice and equity.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
6  Mrs Musgrove was giving Mrs Croft the history of her eldest daughter's engagement, and just in that inconvenient tone of voice which was perfectly audible while it pretended to be a whisper.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
7  I beg your pardon, my dear Miss Elliot," she cried, in her natural tone of cordiality, "I beg your pardon for the short answers I have been giving you, but I have been uncertain what I ought to do.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
8  At the end of that period, Lady Russell's politeness could repose no longer, and the fainter self-threatenings of the past became in a decided tone, "I must call on Mrs Croft; I really must call upon her soon."
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
9  No second attachment, the only thoroughly natural, happy, and sufficient cure, at her time of life, had been possible to the nice tone of her mind, the fastidiousness of her taste, in the small limits of the society around them.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
10  Very good humoured, unaffected girls, indeed," said Mrs Croft, in a tone of calmer praise, such as made Anne suspect that her keener powers might not consider either of them as quite worthy of her brother; "and a very respectable family.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
11  She had a strong impression of his having said, in a vext tone of voice, after Captain Wentworth's interference, "You ought to have minded me, Walter; I told you not to teaze your aunt;" and could comprehend his regretting that Captain Wentworth should do what he ought to have done himself.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
12  It had been gradually yielding to the better hopes which her looks, or words, or actions occasionally encouraged; it had been vanquished at last by those sentiments and those tones which had reached him while she talked with Captain Harville; and under the irresistible governance of which he had seized a sheet of paper, and poured out his feelings.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23