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1 This was an affair, however, of which Lady Middleton did not approve.
Sense and SensibilityBy Jane Austen ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 27
2 Mrs. John Dashwood did not at all approve of what her husband intended to do for his sisters.
Sense and SensibilityBy Jane Austen ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 2
3 But I had no inclination for the law, even in this less abstruse study of it, which my family approved.
Sense and SensibilityBy Jane Austen ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 19
4 She was first called to observe and approve him farther, by a reflection which Elinor chanced one day to make on the difference between him and his sister.
Sense and SensibilityBy Jane Austen ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3
5 I am sure," said she, "I have no doubt in the world of your faithfully keeping this secret, because you must know of what importance it is to us, not to have it reach his mother; for she would never approve of it, I dare say.
Sense and SensibilityBy Jane Austen ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 22
6 But she could hear of no situation that at once answered her notions of comfort and ease, and suited the prudence of her eldest daughter, whose steadier judgment rejected several houses as too large for their income, which her mother would have approved.
Sense and SensibilityBy Jane Austen ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3
7 In hastily forming and giving his opinion of other people, in sacrificing general politeness to the enjoyment of undivided attention where his heart was engaged, and in slighting too easily the forms of worldly propriety, he displayed a want of caution which Elinor could not approve, in spite of all that he and Marianne could say in its support.
Sense and SensibilityBy Jane Austen ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 10