"No sooner was his father's funeral over, than Mrs John Dashwood [...] arrived with her child and their attendants."

"He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed."

"He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing. He was too diffident to do justice to h…"

"Brandon is just the kind of man [...] whom everybody speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted t…"

"Yet there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the re…"

"[...] mindful of the feelings of others; and much was said on the subject of rain by both of them [to change topic]."

"To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness…"

"The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."

"Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting …"

"They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could affor…"