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1  And besides all this, I am afraid, Mama, he has no real taste.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
2  He was afraid of catching cold I dare say, and invented this trick for getting out of it.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
3  I was afraid you would think I was taking a great liberty with you," said she, "in telling you all this.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22
4  My judgment," he returned, "is all on your side of the question; but I am afraid my practice is much more on your sister's.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17
5  I'm sure there's a vast many smart beaux in Exeter; but you know, how could I tell what smart beaux there might be about Norland; and I was only afraid the Miss Dashwoods might find it dull at Barton, if they had not so many as they used to have.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21
6  Elinor wished very much to ask whether Willoughby were then in town, but she was afraid of giving him pain by any enquiry after his rival; and at length, by way of saying something, she asked if he had been in London ever since she had seen him last.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26
7  Marianne was afraid of offending, and said no more on the subject; but the kind of approbation which Elinor described as excited in him by the drawings of other people, was very far from that rapturous delight, which, in her opinion, could alone be called taste.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4