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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married.'
  • Novel: Persuasion
  • Character: Captain Frederick Wentworth speaking as married people
  • Link to text in chapter 8
  • Text ID: 00803
'Yes, you will,'
  • Novel: Persuasion
  • Character: Captain Frederick Wentworth speaking as married people
  • Link to text in chapter 8
  • Text ID: 00805
Mr. Tilney’s being a clergyman, and of a very respectable family in Gloucestershire.
His name,
of music and dancing he was passionately fond,
"My protege,
it had been quite an agreeable surprise.
it was very low pitched, and that the ceiling was crooked.
if I would go with him to Barton.
he will never frank for me?
he won't.
it is quite shocking."
how long they had been in town.
it might be many weeks before we met again —
'The lock of hair,
which you so obligingly bestowed on me'
they are sure I have made a conquest;
'Lord! here comes your beau, Nancy,'
the lady of Thomas Palmer, Esq. was safely delivered of a son and heir;
as bearing no comparison with Mrs. Brandon.
Miss Gilbert was expected at her brother's, and must be invited with the rest.
Mrs. Gilbert would have danced the other evening, if she had been asked.
In comparison with his brother, Edmund would have nothing to say. The soup would be sent round in a most spiritless manner, wine drank without any smiles or agreeable trifling, and the venison cut up without supplying one pleasant anecdote of any former haunch, or a single entertaining story, about "my friend such a one."
They could not act, they could not rehearse with any satisfaction without her. The comfort of the whole evening was destroyed. What was to be done?
Sir Thomas in the house!
nothing could be so easy,
it was the easiest game on the cards,
that it was to be a very thorough attack, that looks and undertones were to be well tried, he sank as quietly as possible into a corner, turned his back, and took up a newspaper, very sincerely wishing that