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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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it was what she had expected all the while.
Sir William had been delighted with him. He was quite young, wonderfully handsome, extremely agreeable, and to crown the whole, he meant to be at the next assembly with a large party.
he might be always flying about from one place to another, and never settled at Netherfield as he ought to be.
his being gone to London only to get a large party for the ball;
she should not;
she would,
he would tell her what lady had the credit of inspiring such reflections.
her admiration of Captain Carter,
her hope of seeing him in the course of the day, as he was going the next morning to London.
to remain at Netherfield for the present.
Her manners were
very bad indeed, a mixture of pride and impertinence; she had no conversation, no style, no beauty.
her thanks to Mr. Bingley for his kindness to Jane,
for troubling him also with Lizzy.
having promised on his first coming into the country to give a ball at Netherfield.
it would be the most shameful thing in the world if he did not keep it.
no one intended to play,
“What could he mean?
what could be his meaning”
she could at all understand him?
they could not possibly have the carriage before Tuesday;
if Mr. Bingley and his sister pressed them to stay longer, she could spare them very well.
at their coming,
very wrong to give so much trouble,
Jane would have caught cold again.
against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about.
having so fine a family of daughters;
he had heard much of their beauty, but that in this instance fame had fallen short of the truth;
he did not doubt her seeing them all in due time well disposed of in marriage.
to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cooking was owing.
they were very well able to keep a good cook,
her daughters had nothing to do in the kitchen.
begged pardon for having displeased her.
herself not at all offended;
he never read novels.
he bore his young cousin no ill-will, and should never resent her behaviour as any affront,
“As to her younger daughters, she could not take upon her to say — she could not positively answer — but she did not know of any prepossession; her eldest daughter, she must just mention — she felt it incumbent on her to hint, was likely to be very soon engaged.”
his intrusion, without any previous acquaintance with her, which he could not help flattering himself, however, might be justified by his relationship to the young ladies who introduced him to her notice.
except Lady Catherine and her daughter, he had never seen a more elegant woman; for she had not only received him with the utmost civility, but had even pointedly included him in her invitation for the next evening, although utterly unknown to her before. Something, he supposed, might be attributed to his connection with them, but yet he had never met with so much attention in the whole course of his life.
he might almost have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings;
it was not of the least importance,
he considered the money as a mere trifle,
she would not make herself uneasy.
describing the civility of Mr. and Mrs . Phillips,
he did not in the least regard his losses at whist,
he crowded his cousins,
she had no disinclination for it.
the probability of their marriage was extremely agreeable to her.
he had just been so fortunate as to make a most important discovery.
His being such a charming young man, and so rich, and living but three miles from them,