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1  I can never get by this shop without stopping.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
2  Their preparations, however, were stopped short.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
3  This decision checked Mary's eagerness, and stopped her short in the midst of the Elliot countenance.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
4  "I am not yet so much changed," cried Anne, and stopped, fearing she hardly knew what misconstruction.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
5  She stopped, regretting with a deep blush that she had implied so much; but less would hardly have been sufficient.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
6  When they came to the steps, leading upwards from the beach, a gentleman, at the same moment preparing to come down, politely drew back, and stopped to give them way.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
7  I have not seen one of them to-day, except Mr Musgrove, who just stopped and spoke through the window, but without getting off his horse; and though I told him how ill I was, not one of them have been near me.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
8  She and Mary were actually setting forward for the Great House, where, as she afterwards learnt, they must inevitably have found him, when they were stopped by the eldest boy's being at that moment brought home in consequence of a bad fall.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7