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1  The clock struck twelve, and it still rained.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
2  There will be very few people in the pump-room, if it rains all the morning.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
3  This was readily agreed to, with only a proviso of Miss Tilney's, that it did not rain, which Catherine was sure it would not.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
4  A bright morning so early in the year, she allowed, would generally turn to rain, but a cloudy one foretold improvement as the day advanced.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
5  The wind roared down the chimney, the rain beat in torrents against the windows, and everything seemed to speak the awfulness of her situation.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21
6  But whether Catherine might still expect her friends, whether there had not been too much rain for Miss Tilney to venture, must yet be a question.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
7  The night was stormy; the wind had been rising at intervals the whole afternoon; and by the time the party broke up, it blew and rained violently.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21
8  Catherine went every five minutes to the clock, threatening on each return that, if it still kept on raining another five minutes, she would give up the matter as hopeless.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
9  You are to thank your brother and me for the scheme; it darted into our heads at breakfast-time, I verily believe at the same instant; and we should have been off two hours ago if it had not been for this detestable rain.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
10  The breeze had not seemed to waft the sighs of the murdered to her; it had wafted nothing worse than a thick mizzling rain; and having given a good shake to her habit, she was ready to be shown into the common drawing-room, and capable of considering where she was.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20