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1  He was four years with my uncle, who lives at Longstaple, near Plymouth.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22
2  They were married, married in town, and now hastening down to her uncle's.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 48
3  And this, I fear, is all that can be said for the conduct of one, who was at once her uncle and guardian.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 31
4  They are very well behaved, good kind of girls; and I think the attention is due to them, as their uncle did so very well by Edward.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 36
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  And to have entered into a secret engagement with a young man under her uncle's care, the son of a woman especially of such very large fortune as Mrs. Ferrars, is perhaps, altogether a little extraordinary.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 37
7  It was there our acquaintance begun, for my sister and me was often staying with my uncle, and it was there our engagement was formed, though not till a year after he had quitted as a pupil; but he was almost always with us afterwards.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22