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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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she could suit herself perfectly with those in the room.
they knew many women who answered this description,
her sister was worse, and that she could not leave her.
Mr. Jones's being sent for immediately;
an express to town for one of the most eminent physicians.
every possible attention might be paid to the sick lady and her sister.
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.
if you ever resolved upon quitting Netherfield you should be gone in five minutes,
no one intended to play,
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.
“What could he mean?
what could be his meaning”
she could at all understand him?
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.
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.
at their coming,
very wrong to give so much trouble,
Jane would have caught cold again.
Much had been done, and much had been said in the regiment since the preceding Wednesday; several of the officers had dined lately with their uncle, a private had been flogged, and it had actually been hinted that Colonel Forster was going to be married.
against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about.
having so fine a family of daughters;
he had heard much of their beauty, but that in this instance fame had fallen short of the truth;
he did not doubt her seeing them all in due time well disposed of in marriage.
to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cooking was owing.
they were very well able to keep a good cook,
her daughters had nothing to do in the kitchen.
begged pardon for having displeased her.
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.
in point of true beauty, Miss de Bourgh is far superior to the handsomest of her sex, because there is that in her features which marks the young lady of distinguished birth.
She is unfortunately of a sickly constitution, which has prevented her from making that progress in many accomplishments which she could not have otherwise failed of,
to read aloud to the ladies.
he never read novels.
my uncle Phillips talks of turning away Richard; and if he does, Colonel Forster will hire him.
he acted very wisely in leaving the girls to their own trifling amusements.
it should not occur again, if he would resume his book;
he bore his young cousin no ill-will, and should never resent her behaviour as any affront,
“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;
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.