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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
coming to Lyme for a month, did him more good than all the medicine he took;
being by the sea, always makes him feel young again.
Colonel Wallis had known Mr Elliot long, had been well acquainted also with his wife, had perfectly understood the whole story. She was certainly not a woman of family, but well educated, accomplished, rich, and excessively in love with his friend. There had been the charm. She had sought him. Without that attraction, not all her money would have tempted Elliot,
  • Novel: Persuasion
  • Character: Narrator as Sir Walter Elliot and Elizabeth Elliot as Colonel Wallis
  • Link to text in chapter 15
  • Text ID: 01588
her having been a very fine woman.
"now Miss Anne was come, she could not suppose herself at all wanted;"
Mrs Charles Musgrove, and her fine little boys,
But the rain was also a mere trifle
her boots were so thick! much thicker than Miss Anne's;
it is to be put into the marriage articles when you and Mr Elliot marry, that your father is not to marry Mrs Clay.
on having preserved her gown from injury.
it is nine, measured nine;
Thorpe;
how time had slipped away since they were last together, how little they had thought of meeting in Bath, and what a pleasure it was to see an old friend,
the prettiest girl in Bath.”
welcomed
to dine with them,
guess the price and weigh the merits of a new muff and tippet.
she would move a little to accommodate Mrs. Hughes and Miss Tilney with seats, as they had agreed to join their party.
she was vastly pleased at your all going.”
Mrs. Tilney was a Miss Drummond, and she and Mrs. Hughes were schoolfellows; and Miss Drummond had a very large fortune; and, when she married, her father gave her twenty thousand pounds, and five hundred to buy wedding-clothes. Mrs. Hughes saw all the clothes after they came from the warehouse.”
there was a very beautiful set of pearls that Mr. Drummond gave his daughter on her wedding-day and that Miss Tilney has got now, for they were put by for her when her mother died.”
he is a very fine young man,
and likely to do very well.”
he is the most delightful young man in the world; she saw him this morning,
she was ready to go.
Young people will be young people,
nothing of any of them.
the young people’s happiness,
Isabella’s beauty,
her great good luck.
the necessity of its concealment,
she could have known his intention,
she could have seen him before he went, as she should certainly have troubled him with her best regards to his father and mother, and her kind compliments to all the Skinners.
I am never within.”
it might have been productive of much unpleasantness to her; that it was what they could never have voluntarily suffered; and that, in forcing her on such a measure, General Tilney had acted neither honourably nor feelingly — neither as a gentleman nor as a parent. Why he had done it, what could have provoked him to such a breach of hospitality, and so suddenly turned all his partial regard for their daughter into actual ill will,
very pretty kind of young people;
to do every thing in his power to make them comfortable.
to increase the fortunes of his sisters by the present of a thousand pounds a-piece.
To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him to the most dreadful degree.
She begged him to think again on the subject.
How could he answer it to himself to rob his child, and his only child too, of so large a sum? And what possible claim could the Miss Dashwoods, who were related to him only by half blood, which she considered as no relationship at all, have on his generosity to so large an amount.
It was very well known that no affection was ever supposed to exist between the children of any man by different marriages;
why was he to ruin himself, and their
poor little Harry,
by giving away fall his money to his half sisters?
being unjust to his merit before, in believing him incapable of generosity.
her beloved Elinor should not be exposed another week to such insinuations.
she was in need of a dwelling; and though the house he now offered her was merely a cottage,

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