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1  A violent gust of wind, rising with sudden fury, added fresh horror to the moment.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21
2  You are splashed getting in and getting out; and the wind takes your hair and your bonnet in every direction.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
3  The storm still raged, and various were the noises, more terrific even than the wind, which struck at intervals on her startled ear.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21
4  The wind roared down the chimney, the rain beat in torrents against the windows, and everything seemed to speak the awfulness of her situation.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21
5  The night was stormy; the wind had been rising at intervals the whole afternoon; and by the time the party broke up, it blew and rained violently.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21
6  For the world would she not have her weakness suspected, and yet, unequal to an absolute falsehood, was constrained to acknowledge that the wind had kept her awake a little.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22
7  It was a narrow winding path through a thick grove of old Scotch firs; and Catherine, struck by its gloomy aspect, and eager to enter it, could not, even by the general's disapprobation, be kept from stepping forward.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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8  It could be nothing but the violence of the wind penetrating through the divisions of the shutters; and she stepped boldly forward, carelessly humming a tune, to assure herself of its being so, peeped courageously behind each curtain, saw nothing on either low window seat to scare her, and on placing a hand against the shutter, felt the strongest conviction of the wind's force.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21