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1  The worst of Bath was the number of its plain women.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
2  Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
3  Pretty well, ma'am in the fifteen years of my marriage; though many women have done more.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
4  Morning visits are never fair by women at her time of life, who make themselves up so little.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
5  He did not mean to say that there were no pretty women, but the number of the plain was out of all proportion.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
6  I believe I have lived as much on board as most women, and I know nothing superior to the accommodations of a man-of-war.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
7  But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
8  There can be no want of gallantry, Admiral, in rating the claims of women to every personal comfort high, and this is what I do.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
9  She felt that he had every thing to elevate him which general attention and deference, and especially the attention of all the young women, could do.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
10  Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
11  It is rather from feeling how impossible it is, with all one's efforts, and all one's sacrifices, to make the accommodations on board such as women ought to have.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
12  He had frequently observed, as he walked, that one handsome face would be followed by thirty, or five-and-thirty frights; and once, as he had stood in a shop on Bond Street, he had counted eighty-seven women go by, one after another, without there being a tolerable face among them.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
13  It began to rain, not much, but enough to make shelter desirable for women, and quite enough to make it very desirable for Miss Elliot to have the advantage of being conveyed home in Lady Dalrymple's carriage, which was seen waiting at a little distance; she, Anne, and Mrs Clay, therefore, turned into Molland's, while Mr Elliot stepped to Lady Dalrymple, to request her assistance.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19