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1  There are several odd-looking men walking about here, who, I am told, are sailors.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
2  There were many other men about him, many groups walking the same way, but there was no mistaking him.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
3  Charles, being somewhat more mindful of the probabilities of the case, only nodded in reply, and walked away.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
4  Captain Wentworth left his seat, and walked to the fire-place; probably for the sake of walking away from it soon afterwards, and taking a station, with less bare-faced design, by Anne.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
5  The half hour was chatted away pleasantly enough; and she was not at all surprised at the end of it, to have their walking party joined by both the Miss Musgroves, at Mary's particular invitation.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
6  Everything now marked out Louisa for Captain Wentworth; nothing could be plainer; and where many divisions were necessary, or even where they were not, they walked side by side nearly as much as the other two.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
7  The walking party had crossed the lane, and were surmounting an opposite stile, and the Admiral was putting his horse in motion again, when Captain Wentworth cleared the hedge in a moment to say something to his sister.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
8  As soon as she could, she went after Mary, and having found, and walked back with her to their former station, by the stile, felt some comfort in their whole party being immediately afterwards collected, and once more in motion together.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
9  One morning, very soon after the dinner at the Musgroves, at which Anne had not been present, Captain Wentworth walked into the drawing-room at the Cottage, where were only herself and the little invalid Charles, who was lying on the sofa.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
10  It was fixed accordingly, that Mrs Clay should be of the party in the carriage; and they had just reached this point, when Anne, as she sat near the window, descried, most decidedly and distinctly, Captain Wentworth walking down the street.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
11  For thirteen years had she been doing the honours, and laying down the domestic law at home, and leading the way to the chaise and four, and walking immediately after Lady Russell out of all the drawing-rooms and dining-rooms in the country.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
12  The folks of the Great House were to spend the evening of this day at the Cottage; and it being now too late in the year for such visits to be made on foot, the coach was beginning to be listened for, when the youngest Miss Musgrove walked in.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
13  Mrs Harville's giving it as her opinion that her husband would have quite walking enough by the time he reached home, determined the direction of all the party in what was to be their last walk; they would accompany them to their door, and then return and set off themselves.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
14  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.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
15  The surprise of finding himself almost alone with Anne Elliot, deprived his manners of their usual composure: he started, and could only say, "I thought the Miss Musgroves had been here: Mrs Musgrove told me I should find them here," before he walked to the window to recollect himself, and feel how he ought to behave.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
16  To some of the best-looking of these good people Henrietta was consigned, for, though partially revived, she was quite helpless; and in this manner, Anne walking by her side, and Charles attending to his wife, they set forward, treading back with feelings unutterable, the ground, which so lately, so very lately, and so light of heart, they had passed along.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
17  So much was pretty soon understood; but till Sir Walter and Elizabeth were walking Mary into the other drawing-room, and regaling themselves with her admiration, Anne could not draw upon Charles's brain for a regular history of their coming, or an explanation of some smiling hints of particular business, which had been ostentatiously dropped by Mary, as well as of some apparent confusion as to whom their party consisted of.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
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