ACKNOWLEDGE in Classic Quotes

1  Miss Bennet he acknowledged to be pretty, but she smiled too much.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

2  It was acknowledged, however, that he was a liberal man, and did much good among the poor.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 44

3  Ever since I have known it, I have been most anxious to acknowledge to you how gratefully I feel it.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 58

4  You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10

5  To Elizabeth, however, he voluntarily acknowledged that the necessity of his absence had been self-imposed.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21

6  It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

7  Elizabeth was forced to give into a little falsehood here; for to acknowledge the substance of their conversation was impossible.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 56

8  Their taking her home, and affording her their personal protection and countenance, is such a sacrifice to her advantage as years of gratitude cannot enough acknowledge.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 49

9  He acknowledged the truth of it all, and said that business with his steward had occasioned his coming forward a few hours before the rest of the party with whom he had been travelling.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

10  My objections to the marriage were not merely those which I last night acknowledged to have the utmost force of passion to put aside, in my own case; the want of connection could not be so great an evil to my friend as to me.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

11  I joined them unexpectedly a day or two before the intended elopement, and then Georgiana, unable to support the idea of grieving and offending a brother whom she almost looked up to as a father, acknowledged the whole to me.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

12  His first object with her, he acknowledged, had been to persuade her to quit her present disgraceful situation, and return to her friends as soon as they could be prevailed on to receive her, offering his assistance, as far as it would go.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 52

13  The whole of what Elizabeth had already heard, his claims on Mr. Darcy, and all that he had suffered from him, was now openly acknowledged and publicly canvassed; and everybody was pleased to know how much they had always disliked Mr. Darcy before they had known anything of the matter.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24

14  Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

15  All this was acknowledged to Mrs. Gardiner; and after relating the circumstances, she thus went on: "I am now convinced, my dear aunt, that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil."

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26

16  The evening was spent chiefly in talking over Hertfordshire news, and telling again what had already been written; and when it closed, Elizabeth, in the solitude of her chamber, had to meditate upon Charlotte's degree of contentment, to understand her address in guiding, and composure in bearing with, her husband, and to acknowledge that it was all done very well.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28

17  Wilfully and wantonly to have thrown off the companion of my youth, the acknowledged favourite of my father, a young man who had scarcely any other dependence than on our patronage, and who had been brought up to expect its exertion, would be a depravity, to which the separation of two young persons, whose affection could be the growth of only a few weeks, could bear no comparison.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35