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1  A great deal too handsome, in my opinion, for any place THEY can ever afford to live in.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
2  His visit afforded her but a very partial satisfaction, while his own enjoyment in it appeared so imperfect.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
3  Their arrival seemed to afford him real satisfaction, and their comfort to be an object of real solicitude to him.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
4  They afforded her no companion that could make amends for what she had left behind, nor that could teach her to think of Norland with less regret than ever.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
5  They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
6  It has been, and is, and probably will always be a heavy misfortune to me, that I have had no necessary business to engage me, no profession to give me employment, or afford me any thing like independence.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
7  The two gentlemen arrived the next day to a very late dinner, affording a pleasant enlargement of the party, and a very welcome variety to their conversation, which a long morning of the same continued rain had reduced very low.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 42
8  The house and the garden, with all the objects surrounding them, were now become familiar, and the ordinary pursuits which had given to Norland half its charms were engaged in again with far greater enjoyment than Norland had been able to afford, since the loss of their father.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
9  Edward returned to them with fresh admiration of the surrounding country; in his walk to the village, he had seen many parts of the valley to advantage; and the village itself, in a much higher situation than the cottage, afforded a general view of the whole, which had exceedingly pleased him.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
10  In every meeting of the kind Willoughby was included; and the ease and familiarity which naturally attended these parties were exactly calculated to give increasing intimacy to his acquaintance with the Dashwoods, to afford him opportunity of witnessing the excellencies of Marianne, of marking his animated admiration of her, and of receiving, in her behaviour to himself, the most pointed assurance of her affection.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11