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1  Many a noble fortune has been made during the war.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
2  If it were war now, he would have settled it long ago.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
3  We sailors, Miss Elliot, cannot afford to make long courtships in time of war.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
4  When he is married, if we have the good luck to live to another war, we shall see him do as you and I, and a great many others, have done.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
5  His profession was all that could ever make her friends wish that tenderness less, the dread of a future war all that could dim her sunshine.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
6  Charles "had never seen a pleasanter man in his life; and from what he had once heard Captain Wentworth himself say, was very sure that he had not made less than twenty thousand pounds by the war."
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
7  Here was a fortune at once; besides which, there would be the chance of what might be done in any future war; and he was sure Captain Wentworth was as likely a man to distinguish himself as any officer in the navy.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9