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1  A moment's reflection shewed her the mistake she had been under.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
2  They had looked forward and arranged everything before the others began to reflect.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
3  The idea of Louisa Musgrove turned into a person of literary taste, and sentimental reflection was amusing, but she had no doubt of its being so.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
4  But he must not be addressing his reflections to Anne alone: he knew it; he was soon diffused again among the others, and it was only at intervals that he could return to Lyme.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
5  She was ashamed of herself, quite ashamed of being so nervous, so overcome by such a trifle; but so it was, and it required a long application of solitude and reflection to recover her.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
6  To a degree, I could contradict this instantly; but, when I began to reflect that others might have felt the same--her own family, nay, perhaps herself--I was no longer at my own disposal.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
7  Half an hour's solitude and reflection might have tranquillized her; but the ten minutes only which now passed before she was interrupted, with all the restraints of her situation, could do nothing towards tranquillity.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
8  When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme to preach patience and resignation to a young man whom she had never seen before; nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11