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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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had never met with more pleasant people or prettier girls in his life; everybody had been most kind and attentive to him; there had been no formality, no stiffness; he had soon felt acquainted with all the room; and, as to Miss Bennet, he could not conceive an angel more beautiful.
had seen a collection of people in whom there was little beauty and no fashion, for none of whom he had felt the smallest interest, and from none received either attention or pleasure.
Miss Bennet
pretty, but she smiled too much.
pretty;
she hardly had a good feature in her face,
her figure
light and pleasing;
her manners were not those of the fashionable world,
allowed the honour of her hand,
to fetch her others — all that his library afforded.
Mr. Jones's being sent for immediately;
every possible attention might be paid to the sick lady and her sister.
he could imagine but two motives for their choosing to walk up and down the room together, with either of which motives his joining them would interfere.
it would not be safe for her —
she was not enough recovered;
to be particularly careful that no sign of admiration should now escape him, nothing that could elevate her with the hope of influencing his felicity; sensible that if such an idea had been suggested, his behaviour during the last day must have material weight in confirming or crushing it.
entreated permission to introduce his friend, Mr. Wickham, who had returned with him the day before from town, and he was happy to say had accepted a commission in their corps.
on his way to Longbourn on purpose to inquire after her.
Wickham had been obliged to go to town on business the day before, and was not yet returned;
whatever she wished him to say should be said.
if she and her sisters did not very often walk to Meryton.
for taking the earliest opportunity of waiting on her, after his return from London, whither he was obliged to go the next day for a short time.
to inquire
after the health of her family.
he had never been so fortunate as to meet Miss Bennet.
having promised to play to him;
for his intrusion
he had understood all the ladies were to be within.
why she supposed Miss Darcy likely to give them any uneasiness,
a wish of hearing that she were better.
her inferiority — of its being a degradation — of the family obstacles which judgment had always opposed to inclination,
the strength of that attachment which, in spite of all his endeavours, he had found impossible to conquer;
it would now be rewarded by her acceptance of his hand.
as to the time of her having left Longbourn, and of her having stayed in Derbyshire,
if she would do him the honour of introducing him to her friends.
to fish there as often as he chose while he continued in the neighbourhood,
to supply him with fishing tackle,
those parts of the stream where there was usually most sport.
business with his steward had occasioned his coming forward a few hours before the rest of the party with whom he had been travelling.
Bingley was also coming to wait on her;
whether all her sisters were at Longbourn.
their wish of seeing Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, and Miss Bennet, to dinner at Pemberley, before they left the country.
great pleasure in the certainty of seeing Elizabeth again, having still a great deal to say to her, and many inquiries to make after all their Hertfordshire friends.
the ladies of the family intended a visit to Georgiana that morning.
he perceived no other alteration than her being rather tanned, no miraculous consequence of travelling in the summer.
it a happier conclusion than there was at present reason to hope,
his compliments for her relations,
how Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner did,
he did,