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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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His apparent partiality had subsided, his attentions were over, he was the admirer of some one else.
Nothing, on the contrary, could be more natural; and while able to suppose that it cost him a few struggles to relinquish her, she was ready to allow it a wise and desirable measure for both, and could very sincerely wish him happy.
trusting their opinion of her — their opinion of everybody — would always coincide,
there was a solicitude, an interest
must ever attach her to him with a most sincere regard;
whether married or single, he must always be her model of the amiable and pleasing.
to his humble abode,
in displaying the good proportion of the room, its aspect and its furniture, he addressed himself particularly to her, as if wishing to make her feel what she had lost in refusing him.
she could have so cheerful an air with such a companion.
he must be often forgotten.
she hardly ever does. It is the greatest of favours when Miss de Bourgh comes in.”
congratulate them on their good fortune,
letting them know that the whole party was asked to dine at Rosings the next day.
recommend their being quick, as Lady Catherine very much objected to be kept waiting for her dinner.
the mere stateliness of money or rank
she could witness without trepidation.
Lady Catherine to be exactly what he had represented.
it was much better worth looking at in the summer.
to try some other dish,
she was indisposed.
nothing was beneath this great lady's attention, which could furnish her with an occasion of dictating to others.
was a very genteel, pretty kind of girl.
how many sisters she had, whether they were older or younger than herself, whether any of them were likely to be married, whether they were handsome, where they had been educated, what carriage her father kept, and what had been her mother's maiden name?
had not been the case.
'Lady Catherine,'
'you have given me a treasure.'
the first creature who had ever dared to trifle with so much dignified impertinence.
Miss de Bourgh's being too hot or too cold, or having too much or too little light.
to give her opinion of all that she had seen at Rosings,
Charlotte should not prefer the dining-parlour for common use; it was a better sized room, and had a more pleasant aspect;
her friend had an excellent reason for what she did, for Mr. Collins would undoubtedly have been much less in his own apartment, had they sat in one equally lively;
there might be other family livings to be disposed of,
Mrs. Collins's joints of meat were too large for her family.
though this great lady was not in the commission of the peace of the county, she was a most active magistrate in her own parish, the minutest concerns of which were carried to her by Mr. Collins; and whenever any of the cottagers were disposed to be quarrelsome, discontented, or too poor, she sallied forth into the village to settle their differences, silence their complaints, and scold them into harmony and plenty.
though there were not many of her acquaintances whom she did not prefer, his coming would furnish one comparatively new to look at in their Rosings parties, and she might be amused in seeing how hopeless Miss Bingley's designs on him were, by his behaviour to his cousin, for whom he was evidently destined by Lady Catherine,
what an honour they might expect,
to inquire
after the health of her family.
he looked a little confused
he had never been so fortunate as to meet Miss Bennet.
having promised to play to him;
what they were talking of.
he might have been just as likely to marry her, had she been his relation.
for his intrusion
he had understood all the ladies were to be within.
he must be supposing her to be thinking of Jane and Netherfield,
there was less captivating softness in Colonel Fitzwilliam's manners,
he might have the best informed mind.
He certainly looked at her friend a great deal, but the expression of that look was disputable. It was an earnest, stedfast gaze,
whether there were much admiration in it, and sometimes it seemed nothing but absence of mind.