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1  It is a corner room, and has windows on two sides.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
2  Scarcely had she so determined it, when the figure of a man on horseback drew her eyes to the window.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 48
3  The village of Barton was chiefly on one of these hills, and formed a pleasant view from the cottage windows.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
4  "That is true," cried Marianne, in a cheerful voice, and walking to the window as she spoke, to examine the day.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27
5  Marianne, who had seen him from the window, and who hated company of any kind, left the room before he entered it.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27
6  The wind roared round the house, and the rain beat against the windows; but Elinor, all happiness within, regarded it not.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 43
7  The closing of the little gate, at the entrance of the green court in front of the house, drew her eyes to the window, and she saw a large party walking up to the door.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
8  As a house, Barton Cottage, though small, was comfortable and compact; but as a cottage it was defective, for the building was regular, the roof was tiled, the window shutters were not painted green, nor were the walls covered with honeysuckles.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
9  As they approached Barton, indeed, and entered on scenes of which every field and every tree brought some peculiar, some painful recollection, she grew silent and thoughtful, and turning away her face from their notice, sat earnestly gazing through the window.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 46
10  About the middle of the day, Mrs. Jennings went out by herself on business, and Elinor began her letter directly, while Marianne, too restless for employment, too anxious for conversation, walked from one window to the other, or sat down by the fire in melancholy meditation.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27
11  She sometimes endeavoured for a few minutes to read; but the book was soon thrown aside, and she returned to the more interesting employment of walking backwards and forwards across the room, pausing for a moment whenever she came to the window, in hopes of distinguishing the long-expected rap.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26
12  Had it been ten, Elinor would have been convinced that at that moment she heard a carriage driving up to the house; and so strong was the persuasion that she DID, in spite of the ALMOST impossibility of their being already come, that she moved into the adjoining dressing-closet and opened a window shutter, to be satisfied of the truth.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 43
13  Such was the sentence which, when misunderstood, so justly offended the delicate feelings of Mrs. Jennings; but after this narration of what really passed between Colonel Brandon and Elinor, while they stood at the window, the gratitude expressed by the latter on their parting, may perhaps appear in general, not less reasonably excited, nor less properly worded than if it had arisen from an offer of marriage.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 39