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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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she had seen almost enough to be thankful for her OWN sake, that one greater obstacle preserved her from suffering under any other of Mrs. Ferrars's creation, preserved her from all dependence upon her caprice, or any solicitude for her good opinion.
she could hardly walk; and Nancy, she was almost as bad.
she had been unjust, inattentive, nay, almost unkind, to her Elinor;
— that Marianne's affliction, because more acknowledged, more immediately before her, had too much engrossed her tenderness, and led her away to forget that in Elinor she might have a daughter suffering almost as much, certainly with less self-provocation, and greater fortitude.
had quite doted upon the worthless hussy, and was now, by all accounts, almost broken-hearted, at Oxford. —