1 I was obliged to confess one thing, which for a time, and not unjustly, offended him.
2 "Yes, indeed," cried Mrs. Bennet, offended by his manner of mentioning a country neighbourhood.
3 His pride," said Miss Lucas, "does not offend me so much as pride often does, because there is an excuse for it.
4 Mr. Darcy smiled; but Elizabeth thought she could perceive that he was rather offended, and therefore checked her laugh.
5 In a softened tone she declared herself not at all offended; but he continued to apologise for about a quarter of an hour.
6 At his own ball he offended two or three young ladies, by not asking them to dance; and I spoke to him twice myself, without receiving an answer.
7 Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned.
8 I joined them unexpectedly a day or two before the intended elopement, and then Georgiana, unable to support the idea of grieving and offending a brother whom she almost looked up to as a father, acknowledged the whole to me.