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1  There, however, he is quite mistaken.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 45
2  Indeed, Marianne, I think you are mistaken.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
3  You are mistaken, Elinor; you are very much mistaken.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 33
4  Indeed, Ma'am," said Elinor, very seriously, "you are mistaken.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 29
5  You are mistaken, Elinor," said she warmly, "in supposing I know very little of Willoughby.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12
6  He could only plead an ignorance of his own heart, and a mistaken confidence in the force of his engagement.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 49
7  All her impatience to be at home again now returned; her mother was dearer to her than ever; dearer through the very excess of her mistaken confidence in Willoughby, and she was wildly urgent to be gone.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 31
8  This hint was enough, Lucy recollected herself instantly and replied, "Indeed you are very much mistaken, Lady Middleton; I am only waiting to know whether you can make your party without me, or I should have been at my filigree already."
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 23
9  But Marianne abhorred all concealment where no real disgrace could attend unreserve; and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves illaudable, appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort, but a disgraceful subjection of reason to common-place and mistaken notions.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
10  The tea things were brought in, and already had Marianne been disappointed more than once by a rap at a neighbouring door, when a loud one was suddenly heard which could not be mistaken for one at any other house, Elinor felt secure of its announcing Willoughby's approach, and Marianne, starting up, moved towards the door.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26