1 I have sent for you on an affair of importance.
2 At Brighton she will be of less importance even as a common flirt than she has been here.
3 When her mother went up to her dressing-room at night, she followed her, and made the important communication.
4 One day's delay, she observed, would be of small importance; and her mother was too happy to be quite so obstinate as usual.
5 Mrs. Bennet, all amazement, though flattered by having a guest of such high importance, received her with the utmost politeness.
6 Easter was approaching, and the week preceding it was to bring an addition to the family at Rosings, which in so small a circle must be important.
7 But their father, though very laconic in his expressions of pleasure, was really glad to see them; he had felt their importance in the family circle.
8 Through letters, whatever of good or bad was to be told would be communicated, and every succeeding day was expected to bring some news of importance.
9 Our importance, our respectability in the world must be affected by the wild volatility, the assurance and disdain of all restraint which mark Lydia's character.
10 And I do not think it of light importance that he should have attentive and conciliatory manners towards everybody, especially towards those to whom he owes his preferment.
11 She was busily searching through the neighbourhood for a proper situation for her daughter, and, without knowing or considering what their income might be, rejected many as deficient in size and importance.
12 It was a large, handsome stone building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills; and in front, a stream of some natural importance was swelled into greater, but without any artificial appearance.
13 The beginning contained an account of all their little parties and engagements, with such news as the country afforded; but the latter half, which was dated a day later, and written in evident agitation, gave more important intelligence.
14 It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both; by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.
15 It had not been very great; he had lost every point; but when Mrs. Phillips began to express her concern thereupon, he assured her with much earnest gravity that it was not of the least importance, that he considered the money as a mere trifle, and begged that she would not make herself uneasy.
16 On their being joined by Mr. Bingley himself, Elizabeth withdrew to Miss Lucas; to whose inquiry after the pleasantness of her last partner she had scarcely replied, before Mr. Collins came up to them, and told her with great exultation that he had just been so fortunate as to make a most important discovery.
17 It had given him a disgust to his business, and to his residence in a small market town; and, in quitting them both, he had removed with his family to a house about a mile from Meryton, denominated from that period Lucas Lodge, where he could think with pleasure of his own importance, and, unshackled by business, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world.
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