WALKING in Classic Quotes

1  Mrs. Gardiner, who was walking arm-in-arm with Elizabeth, gave her a look expressive of wonder.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

2  Mrs. Bennet was not in the habit of walking; Mary could never spare time; but the remaining five set off together.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 58

3  Mr. Darcy handed the ladies into the carriage; and when it drove off, Elizabeth saw him walking slowly towards the house.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

4  He seemed scarcely to hear her, and was walking up and down the room in earnest meditation, his brow contracted, his air gloomy.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 46

5  After walking two or three times along that part of the lane, she was tempted, by the pleasantness of the morning, to stop at the gates and look into the park.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

6  Elizabeth, feeling really anxious, was determined to go to her, though the carriage was not to be had; and as she was no horsewoman, walking was her only alternative.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

7  After walking several miles in a leisurely manner, and too busy to know anything about it, they found at last, on examining their watches, that it was time to be at home.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 58

8  But the attention of every lady was soon caught by a young man, whom they had never seen before, of most gentlemanlike appearance, walking with another officer on the other side of the way.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15

9  He had by that time reached it also, and, holding out a letter, which she instinctively took, said, with a look of haughty composure, "I have been walking in the grove some time in the hope of meeting you."

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

10  The gentlemen arrived early; and, before Mrs. Bennet had time to tell him of their having seen his aunt, of which her daughter sat in momentary dread, Bingley, who wanted to be alone with Jane, proposed their all walking out.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 58

11  After walking some time in this way, the two ladies in front, the two gentlemen behind, on resuming their places, after descending to the brink of the river for the better inspection of some curious water-plant, there chanced to be a little alteration.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

12  They had been walking about the place with some of their new friends, and were just returning to the inn to dress themselves for dining with the same family, when the sound of a carriage drew them to a window, and they saw a gentleman and a lady in a curricle driving up the street.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 44

13  I hope," said she, as they were walking together in the shrubbery the next day, "you will give your mother-in-law a few hints, when this desirable event takes place, as to the advantage of holding her tongue; and if you can compass it, do cure the younger girls of running after officers.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10

14  If there had not been a Netherfield ball to prepare for and talk of, the younger Miss Bennets would have been in a very pitiable state at this time, for from the day of the invitation, to the day of the ball, there was such a succession of rain as prevented their walking to Meryton once.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17

15  His arrival was soon known at the Parsonage; for Mr. Collins was walking the whole morning within view of the lodges opening into Hunsford Lane, in order to have the earliest assurance of it, and after making his bow as the carriage turned into the Park, hurried home with the great intelligence.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30

16  Within doors there was Lady Catherine, books, and a billiard-table, but gentlemen cannot always be within doors; and in the nearness of the Parsonage, or the pleasantness of the walk to it, or of the people who lived in it, the two cousins found a temptation from this period of walking thither almost every day.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 32

17  Elizabeth passed quietly out of the room, Jane and Kitty followed, but Lydia stood her ground, determined to hear all she could; and Charlotte, detained first by the civility of Mr. Collins, whose inquiries after herself and all her family were very minute, and then by a little curiosity, satisfied herself with walking to the window and pretending not to hear.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20