WORK in Classic Quotes

1  My reproofs at Hunsford could not work such a change as this.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

2  Elizabeth, at work in the opposite corner, saw it all with great delight.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

3  For my part, Mr. Bingley, I always keep servants that can do their own work; my daughters are brought up very differently.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

4  To persuade him against returning into Hertfordshire, when that conviction had been given, was scarcely the work of a moment.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

5  Elizabeth said as little to either as civility would allow, and sat down again to her work, with an eagerness which it did not often command.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 53

6  Bingley of course returned with him to dinner; and in the evening Mrs. Bennet's invention was again at work to get every body away from him and her daughter.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 55

7  I shall send for my clothes when I get to Longbourn; but I wish you would tell Sally to mend a great slit in my worked muslin gown before they are packed up.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 47

8  The communication excited many professions of concern; and enough was said of wishing them to stay at least till the following day to work on Jane; and till the morrow their going was deferred.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12

9  She sat intently at work, striving to be composed, and without daring to lift up her eyes, till anxious curiosity carried them to the face of her sister as the servant was approaching the door.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 53

10  It is not the object of this work to give a description of Derbyshire, nor of any of the remarkable places through which their route thither lay; Oxford, Blenheim, Warwick, Kenilworth, Birmingham, etc.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 42

11  To work in this garden was one of his most respectable pleasures; and Elizabeth admired the command of countenance with which Charlotte talked of the healthfulness of the exercise, and owned she encouraged it as much as possible.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28

12  She immediately felt that whatever desire Miss Darcy might have of being acquainted with her must be the work of her brother, and, without looking farther, it was satisfactory; it was gratifying to know that his resentment had not made him think really ill of her.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

13  After a song or two, and before she could reply to the entreaties of several that she would sing again, she was eagerly succeeded at the instrument by her sister Mary, who having, in consequence of being the only plain one in the family, worked hard for knowledge and accomplishments, was always impatient for display.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

14  Colonel Fitzwilliam's occasionally laughing at his stupidity, proved that he was generally different, which her own knowledge of him could not have told her; and as she would liked to have believed this change the effect of love, and the object of that love her friend Eliza, she set herself seriously to work to find it out.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 32

15  She examined into their employments, looked at their work, and advised them to do it differently; found fault with the arrangement of the furniture; or detected the housemaid in negligence; and if she accepted any refreshment, seemed to do it only for the sake of finding out that Mrs. Collins's joints of meat were too large for her family.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30

16  The very last evening was spent there; and her ladyship again inquired minutely into the particulars of their journey, gave them directions as to the best method of packing, and was so urgent on the necessity of placing gowns in the only right way, that Maria thought herself obliged, on her return, to undo all the work of the morning, and pack her trunk afresh.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 37

17  It soothed, but it could not console her for the contempt which had thus been self-attracted by the rest of her family; and as she considered that Jane's disappointment had in fact been the work of her nearest relations, and reflected how materially the credit of both must be hurt by such impropriety of conduct, she felt depressed beyond anything she had ever known before.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36