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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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it was much better worth looking at in the summer.
was a very genteel, pretty kind of girl.
how many sisters she had, whether they were older or younger than herself, whether any of them were likely to be married, whether they were handsome, where they had been educated, what carriage her father kept, and what had been her mother's maiden name?
Mrs. Collins's joints of meat were too large for her family.
what they were talking of.
she felt herself so dull as to make her very desirous of having them all to dine with her.
she did not like to go home again so soon,
into the particulars of their journey,
the best method of packing,
on the necessity of placing gowns in the only right way,
a good journey,
to come to Hunsford again next year;
he was,
it was a picture of a young gentleman, the son of her late master's steward, who had been brought up by him at his own expense.
it was but just done to give pleasure to Miss Darcy, who had taken a liking to the room when last at Pemberley.
Miss Darcy's delight, when she should enter the room.
it had been taken in his father's lifetime.
her joy.
to be decent looking rooms, walked on.
There had been a time,
when her spirits had nearly failed. She could not call herself an invalid now, compared with her state on first reaching Bath. Then she had, indeed, been a pitiable object; for she had caught cold on the journey, and had hardly taken possession of her lodgings before she was again confined to her bed and suffering under severe and constant pain; and all this among strangers, with the absolute necessity of having a regular nurse, and finances at that moment particularly unfit to meet any extraordinary expense. She had weathered it, however, and could truly say that it had done her good. It had increased her comforts by making her feel herself to be in good hands. She had seen too much of the world, to expect sudden or disinterested attachment anywhere, but her illness had proved to her that her landlady had a character to preserve, and would not use her ill; and she had been particularly fortunate in her nurse, as a sister of her landlady, a nurse by profession, and who had always a home in that house when unemployed, chanced to be at liberty just in time to attend her.
hoped they had not left their hearts behind them in Sussex,
Colonel Brandon was very much in love with Marianne Dashwood.
She rather suspected it to be so, on the very first evening of their being together, from his listening so attentively while she sang to them;
It must be so. She was perfectly convinced of it.
It would be an excellent match, for HE was rich, and SHE was handsome.
Elinor's particular favourite,
what could be the reason of it;
if she had not been to Allenham;
HE was in love with your sister too.
not to care about their being so fashionable; because they were all cousins and must put up with one another.
very agreeable girls indeed,
by hoping,
she would find it to her liking.
to think that, instead of Midsummer, they would not be married till Michaelmas,
it would not be a match at all.
she should not stand upon ceremony, for they were all cousins, or something like it, and she should certainly wait on Mrs. John Dashwood very soon, and bring her sisters to see her.
a delightful thing for the girls to be together;
on having escaped the company of a stupid old woman so long.
the finest child in the world.
to return with her again from Cleveland.
This set the matter beyond a doubt.
she did not think THAT any material objection;
Why Mr. Ferrars was to have been written to about it in such a hurry,
Miss Dashwood was above, and wanted to speak with him on very particular business.
the necessity of her immediate removal with her infant;
her resolution of not stirring from Cleveland as long as Marianne remained ill, and of endeavouring, by her own attentive care, to supply to her the place of the mother she had taken her from;
to send the Colonel away while his love was in so much uneasiness on her sister's account, would be to deprive them both,
of every comfort;
his stay at Cleveland was necessary to herself, that she should want him to play at piquet of an evening, while Miss Dashwood was above with her sister,