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1  Her heart and faith were alike engaged to James.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
2  I have myself told him that Miss Thorpe is engaged.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
3  The Tilneys were soon engaged in another on which she had nothing to say.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
4  He must have thought it very odd to hear me say I was engaged the other evening, when he saw me sitting down.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
5  Isabella now entered the room with so eager a step, and a look of such happy importance, as engaged all her friend's notice.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
6  The engagement which ought to have kept her from joining in the former attempt would make it impossible for her to accompany them now.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
7  She could not think the Tilneys had acted quite well by her, in so readily giving up their engagement, without sending her any message of excuse.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
8  Told her you had sent me to say that, having just recollected a prior engagement of going to Clifton with us tomorrow, you could not have the pleasure of walking with her till Tuesday.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
9  She was separated from all her party, and away from all her acquaintance; one mortification succeeded another, and from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
10  Catherine was not so much engaged at the theatre that evening, in returning the nods and smiles of Miss Thorpe, though they certainly claimed much of her leisure, as to forget to look with an inquiring eye for Mr. Tilney in every box which her eye could reach; but she looked in vain.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
11  She had then been exulting in her engagement to Thorpe, and was now chiefly anxious to avoid his sight, lest he should engage her again; for though she could not, dared not expect that Mr. Tilney should ask her a third time to dance, her wishes, hopes, and plans all centred in nothing less.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
12  She had then been exulting in her engagement to Thorpe, and was now chiefly anxious to avoid his sight, lest he should engage her again; for though she could not, dared not expect that Mr. Tilney should ask her a third time to dance, her wishes, hopes, and plans all centred in nothing less.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
13  The pressing anxieties of thought, which prevented her from noticing anything before her, when once beyond the neighbourhood of Woodston, saved her at the same time from watching her progress; and though no object on the road could engage a moment's attention, she found no stage of it tedious.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 29
14  We are sorry for him," said she; "but otherwise there is no harm done in the match going off; for it could not be a desirable thing to have him engaged to a girl whom we had not the smallest acquaintance with, and who was so entirely without fortune; and now, after such behaviour, we cannot think at all well of her.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 29
15  While talking to each other, she had observed with some surprise that John Thorpe, who was never in the same part of the house for ten minutes together, was engaged in conversation with General Tilney; and she felt something more than surprise when she thought she could perceive herself the object of their attention and discourse.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12
16  The dancing began within a few minutes after they were seated; and James, who had been engaged quite as long as his sister, was very importunate with Isabella to stand up; but John was gone into the card-room to speak to a friend, and nothing, she declared, should induce her to join the set before her dear Catherine could join it too.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
17  They were always engaged in some sentimental discussion or lively dispute, but their sentiment was conveyed in such whispering voices, and their vivacity attended with so much laughter, that though Catherine's supporting opinion was not unfrequently called for by one or the other, she was never able to give any, from not having heard a word of the subject.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
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