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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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he should not go;
it was what she had expected all the while.
he might be always flying about from one place to another, and never settled at Netherfield as he ought to be.
his wife's views on the stranger would be disappointed;
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.
she would,
it was not likely to be discovered by the world in general, since Jane united, with great strength of feeling, a composure of temper and a uniform cheerfulness of manner which would guard her from the suspicions of the impertinent.
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,
her admiration of Captain Carter,
her hope of seeing him in the course of the day, as he was going the next morning to London.
the horses were engaged.
Jane was by no means better.
she would amuse herself for the short time she could stay below, with a book.
she could suit herself perfectly with those in the room.
her sister was worse, and that she could not leave her.
to have a note sent to Longbourn, desiring her mother to visit Jane, and form her own judgement of her situation.
if Charlotte Lucas had been at Longbourn since her coming away.
her thanks to Mr. Bingley for his kindness to Jane,
for troubling him also with Lizzy.
having promised on his first coming into the country to give a ball at Netherfield.
it would be the most shameful thing in the world if he did not keep it.
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.
the carriage might be sent for them in the course of the day.
they could not possibly have the carriage before Tuesday;
if Mr. Bingley and his sister pressed them to stay longer, she could spare them very well.
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.
at their coming,
very wrong to give so much trouble,
Jane would have caught cold again.
against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about.
they were very well able to keep a good cook,
her daughters had nothing to do in the kitchen.
herself not at all offended;
he seemed very fortunate in his patroness. Lady Catherine de Bourgh's attention to his wishes, and consideration for his comfort, appeared very remarkable.
to read aloud to the ladies.
he acted very wisely in leaving the girls to their own trifling amusements.
“As to her younger daughters, she could not take upon her to say — she could not positively answer — but she did not know of any prepossession; her eldest daughter, she must just mention — she felt it incumbent on her to hint, was likely to be very soon engaged.”
to meet with folly and conceit in every other room of the house, he was used to be free from them there;
What could be the meaning of it?
she had neither been seeing him before, nor thinking of him since, with the smallest degree of unreasonable admiration.
the commonest, dullest, most threadbare topic might be rendered interesting by the skill of the speaker.
“A young man, too, like you, whose very countenance may vouch for your being amiable”
he had given a very rational account of it,

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