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1  There is but one thing that I cannot understand.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27
2  It is one of the finest old places in England, I understand.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
3  If able to suggest a hint, Isabella could never understand it.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
4  Catherine was probably the only one of the party who did not understand him.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22
5  Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
6  Consult your own understanding, your own sense of the probable, your own observation of what is passing around you.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 24
7  The little which she could understand, however, appeared to contradict the very few notions she had entertained on the matter before.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
8  I cannot understand even now what she would be at, for there could be no need of my being played off to make her secure of Tilney.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25
9  I see that she has had designs on Captain Tilney, which have not succeeded; but I do not understand what Captain Tilney has been about all this time.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27
10  She never could learn or understand anything before she was taught; and sometimes not even then, for she was often inattentive, and occasionally stupid.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
11  His manner might sometimes surprise, but his meaning must always be just: and what she did not understand, she was almost as ready to admire, as what she did.
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12  The influence of the viscount and viscountess in their brother's behalf was assisted by that right understanding of Mr. Morland's circumstances which, as soon as the general would allow himself to be informed, they were qualified to give.
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13  Catherine listened with astonishment; she knew not how to reconcile two such very different accounts of the same thing; for she had not been brought up to understand the propensities of a rattle, nor to know to how many idle assertions and impudent falsehoods the excess of vanity will lead.
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14  It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire; how little it is biased by the texture of their muslin, and how unsusceptible of peculiar tenderness towards the spotted, the sprigged, the mull, or the jackonet.
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15  Catherine did not hear enough of this speech to understand or be pained by it; and other subjects being studiously brought forward and supported by Henry, at the same time that a tray full of refreshments was introduced by his servant, the general was shortly restored to his complacency, and Catherine to all her usual ease of spirits.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26
16  Miss Tilney, understanding in part her friend's curiosity to see the house, soon revived the subject; and her father being, contrary to Catherine's expectations, unprovided with any pretence for further delay, beyond that of stopping five minutes to order refreshments to be in the room by their return, was at last ready to escort them.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 23