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1  At last the affair was decided.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 33
2  This decided the matter at once.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26
3  I was to decide on the best of them.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 36
4  The two mothers, though each really convinced that her own son was the tallest, politely decided in favour of the other.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 34
5  A short, a very short time however must now decide what Willoughby's intentions were; in all probability he was already in town.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26
6  You decide on his imperfections so much in the mass," replied Elinor, "and so much on the strength of your own imagination, that the commendation I am able to give of him is comparatively cold and insipid.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
7  But while the imaginations of other people will carry them away to form wrong judgments of our conduct, and to decide on it by slight appearances, one's happiness must in some measure be always at the mercy of chance.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 36
8  This was all overheard by Miss Dashwood; and in the whole of the sentence, in his manner of pronouncing it, and in his addressing her sister by her Christian name alone, she instantly saw an intimacy so decided, a meaning so direct, as marked a perfect agreement between them.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12