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1  They will have ten thousand pounds divided amongst them.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
2  By ten o'clock the whole party was assembled at the park, where they were to breakfast.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
3  He did not know what he was talking of, I dare say; ten to one but he was light-headed at the time.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
4  Yes; once, while she was staying in this house, I happened to drop in for ten minutes; and I saw quite enough of her.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 41
5  He survived his uncle no longer; and ten thousand pounds, including the late legacies, was all that remained for his widow and daughters.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
6  At ten o'clock, she trusted, or at least not much later her mother would be relieved from the dreadful suspense in which she must now be travelling towards them.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 43
7  Colonel Brandon, who was here only ten minutes ago, has desired me to say, that understanding you mean to take orders, he has great pleasure in offering you the living of Delaford now just vacant, and only wishes it were more valuable.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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8  The grounds were declared to be highly beautiful, and Sir John, who was particularly warm in their praise, might be allowed to be a tolerable judge, for he had formed parties to visit them, at least, twice every summer for the last ten years.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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9  In the present case it took up ten minutes to determine whether the boy were most like his father or mother, and in what particular he resembled either, for of course every body differed, and every body was astonished at the opinion of the others.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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10  But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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11  Had it been ten, Elinor would have been convinced that at that moment she heard a carriage driving up to the house; and so strong was the persuasion that she DID, in spite of the ALMOST impossibility of their being already come, that she moved into the adjoining dressing-closet and opened a window shutter, to be satisfied of the truth.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 43
12  She blushed at this hint; but it was even visibly gratifying to her; and after a ten minutes' interval of earnest thought, she came to her sister again, and said with great good humour, "Perhaps, Elinor, it WAS rather ill-judged in me to go to Allenham; but Mr. Willoughby wanted particularly to shew me the place; and it is a charming house, I assure you."
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13