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1  He comes from Mr. Pratt's purposely to see us.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 48
2  You have perhaps been misinformed, or purposely deceived, in something concerning me, which may have lowered me in your opinion.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 29
3  He dismounted, and giving his horse to his servant, walked back with them to Barton, whither he was purposely coming to visit them.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
4  My friend Lord Courtland came to me the other day on purpose to ask my advice, and laid before me three different plans of Bonomi's.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 36
5  Twice did I leave them purposely together in the course of the last morning, and each time did he most unaccountably follow me out of the room.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
6  As dinner was not to be ready in less than two hours from their arrival, Elinor determined to employ the interval in writing to her mother, and sat down for that purpose.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26
7  The shortness of his visit, the steadiness of his purpose in leaving them, originated in the same fettered inclination, the same inevitable necessity of temporizing with his mother.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
8  And how he had been so worried by what passed, that as soon as he had went away from his mother's house, he had got upon his horse, and rid into the country, some where or other; and how he had stayed about at an inn all Thursday and Friday, on purpose to get the better of it.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 38
9  But Elinor had no such dependence; for since Edward would still be unable to marry Miss Morton, and his chusing herself had been spoken of in Mrs. Ferrars's flattering language as only a lesser evil than his chusing Lucy Steele, she feared that Robert's offence would serve no other purpose than to enrich Fanny.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 49