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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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"a fine dashing felow, only two perticular about the schoolmaster,"
It must be a work of time to ascertain that no injury had been done to the spine;
"so entirely out of season,"
"no thoroughfare of Lyme,"
"no expectation of company,"
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.
"Yes, Sir, a Mr Elliot, a gentleman of large fortune, came in last night from Sidmouth. Dare say you heard the carriage, sir, while you were at dinner; and going on now for Crewkherne, in his way to Bath and London."
"Elliot!"
"No, ma'am, he did not mention no particular family; but
he said
his master was a very rich gentleman, and would be a baronight some day."
The head had received a severe contusion, but he had seen greater injuries recovered from: he was by no means hopeless;
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.
"Mr and Mrs Charles Musgrove"
the sight of a capital gun he is just going to send off;
would keep it unpacked to the last possible moment, that I might see it;
“Catherine grows quite a good-looking girl — she is almost pretty today,”
a pretty girl.
it is nine, measured nine;
‘Ah! Thorpe,’
‘do you happen to want such a little thing as this? It is a capital one of the kind, but I am cursed tired of it.’
fifty guineas;
how they did,
they both looked very ugly.
to dine with them,
he had quitted it for a week, on the very morning after his having had the pleasure of seeing her.
he was so tired of lounging about, that he was resolved to go and dance;
the spirit and freedom with which his horse moved along, and the ease which his paces, as well as the excellence of the springs, gave the motion of the carriage.
horses which he had bought for a trifle and sold for incredible sums;
racing matches, in which his judgment had infallibly foretold the winner;
shooting parties, in which he had killed more birds (though without having one good shot) than all his companions together;
some famous day’s sport, with the fox-hounds, in which his foresight and skill in directing the dogs had repaired the mistakes of the most experienced huntsman, and in which the boldness of his riding,
though it had never endangered his own life for a moment,
had been constantly leading others into difficulties,
had broken the necks of many.
they were going as far as Wick Rocks.”
he had never seen two men so much alike in his life,
what was the matter.
make room for him,
knew nothing about it; but his father, like every military man, had a very large acquaintance.
whether she had seen him talking with General Tilney:
you the finest girl in Bath.”
When everything was settled, when Miss Tilney herself said that Tuesday would suit her as well, it was quite ridiculous, quite absurd, to make any further objection.
it would be in vain to go after the Tilneys; they were turning the corner into Brock Street, when he had overtaken them, and were at home by this time.
with the servant whose neglect had reduced her to open the door of the apartment herself.
if she would do his daughter the honour of dining and spending the rest of the day with her.
he could say no more; the claims of Mr. and Mrs. Allen were not to be superseded; but on some other day he trusted, when longer notice could be given, they would not refuse to spare her to her friend.
the elasticity of her walk, which corresponded exactly with the spirit of her dancing,

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