IN TOWN in Classic Quotes

1  They had frequently been staying with her in town.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25

2  My eldest sister has been in town these three months.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30

3  Jane had been a week in town without either seeing or hearing from Caroline.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26

4  He owed a good deal in town, but his debts of honour were still more formidable.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 48

5  I thought too ill of him to invite him to Pemberley, or admit his society in town.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35

6  It convinced her that accident only could discover to Mr. Bingley her sister's being in town.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26

7  The families who had been in town for the winter came back again, and summer finery and summer engagements arose.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 42

8  When I am in the country," he replied, "I never wish to leave it; and when I am in town it is pretty much the same.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9

9  Mr. Bingley was obliged to be in town the following day, and, consequently, unable to accept the honour of their invitation, etc.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

10  She then proceeded to inquire into the measures which her father had intended to pursue, while in town, for the recovery of his daughter.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 47

11  When she was only fifteen, there was a man at my brother Gardiner's in town so much in love with her that my sister-in-law was sure he would make her an offer before we came away.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9

12  Her indifferent state of health unhappily prevents her being in town; and by that means, as I told Lady Catherine one day, has deprived the British court of its brightest ornament.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14

13  He knows of my being in town, I am certain, from something she said herself; and yet it would seem, by her manner of talking, as if she wanted to persuade herself that he is really partial to Miss Darcy.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26

14  There is but one part of my conduct in the whole affair on which I do not reflect with satisfaction; it is that I condescended to adopt the measures of art so far as to conceal from him your sister's being in town.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35

15  He had been some days in town, before he was able to discover them; but he had something to direct his search, which was more than we had; and the consciousness of this was another reason for his resolving to follow us.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52

16  She could not imagine what business he could have in town so soon after his arrival in Hertfordshire; and she began to fear that he might be always flying about from one place to another, and never settled at Netherfield as he ought to be.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

17  They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4