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1  It only added a dangerous character to himself.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
2  You have difficulties, and privations, and dangers enough to struggle with.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
3  He seems to have a calm decided temper, not at all open to dangerous impressions.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
4  The Laconia had come into Plymouth the week before; no danger of her being sent to sea again.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
5  So ended all danger to Anne of meeting Captain Wentworth at Kellynch Hall, or of seeing him in company with her friend.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
6  Anne was so impressed by the degree of their danger, that she could not excuse herself from trying to make it perceptible to her sister.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
7  Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
8  A house was never taken good care of, Mr Shepherd observed, without a lady: he did not know, whether furniture might not be in danger of suffering as much where there was no lady, as where there were many children.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
9  A man is in greater danger in the navy of being insulted by the rise of one whose father, his father might have disdained to speak to, and of becoming prematurely an object of disgust himself, than in any other line.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
10  An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
11  I had not considered that my excessive intimacy must have its danger of ill consequence in many ways; and that I had no right to be trying whether I could attach myself to either of the girls, at the risk of raising even an unpleasant report, were there no other ill effects.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
12  Lady Russell was fond of Bath, in short, and disposed to think it must suit them all; and as to her young friend's health, by passing all the warm months with her at Kellynch Lodge, every danger would be avoided; and it was in fact, a change which must do both health and spirits good.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
13  From situation, Mrs Clay was, in Lady Russell's estimate, a very unequal, and in her character she believed a very dangerous companion; and a removal that would leave Mrs Clay behind, and bring a choice of more suitable intimates within Miss Elliot's reach, was therefore an object of first-rate importance.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
14  Mrs Clay had freckles, and a projecting tooth, and a clumsy wrist, which he was continually making severe remarks upon, in her absence; but she was young, and certainly altogether well-looking, and possessed, in an acute mind and assiduous pleasing manners, infinitely more dangerous attractions than any merely personal might have been.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
15  She had the remembrance of all this, she had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome as ever, but she felt her approach to the years of danger, and would have rejoiced to be certain of being properly solicited by baronet-blood within the next twelvemonth or two.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
16  But by coolly giving the reins a better direction herself they happily passed the danger; and by once afterwards judiciously putting out her hand they neither fell into a rut, nor ran foul of a dung-cart; and Anne, with some amusement at their style of driving, which she imagined no bad representation of the general guidance of their affairs, found herself safely deposited by them at the Cottage.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10