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" His wife was not always out of humour, nor his home always uncomfortable; and in his breed of horses and dogs, and in sporting of every kind, he found no inconsiderable degree of domestic felicity. "
Sense and Sensibility - Page 295
by Jane Austen - 1892
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Sense and Sensibility: a Novel

Jane Austen - 1833 - 372 pages
...neither. He lived to exert, and frequently to enjoy himself. His wife was not always out of humour, nor his home always uncomfortable; and in his breed...retained that decided regard which interested him in every thing that befell her, and made her his secret standard of perfection in woman; and many a rising...
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Sense and Sensibility: A Novel

Jane Austen - 1833 - 370 pages
...neither. He lived to exert, and frequently to enjoy himself. His wife was not always out of humour, nor his home always uncomfortable ; and in his breed...retained that decided regard which interested him in every thing that befell her, and made her his secret standard of perfection in woman; and many a rising...
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The Living Age, Volume 295

Literature - 1917 - 920 pages
...sought the constitutional safeguard of a flannel waistcoat! As for the villain, Willoughby, we read that "he lived to exert, and frequently to enjoy himself....uncomfortable; and in his breed of horses and dogs he found no inconsiderable degree of domestic felicity." The opening sentences of Pride and Prejudice...
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Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion ...

Jane Austen - 1864 - 530 pages
...neither. He lived to exeit, and frequently to enjoy himself. His wife was not always out of humour, nor his home always uncomfortable ; and in his breed...retained that decided regard which interested him in every thing that befell her, and made her his secret standard of perfection in woman ; and many a rising...
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Sense & Sensibility

Jane Austen - English literature - 1882 - 342 pages
...neither. He lived to exert, and frequently to enjoy himself. His wife was not always out of humour, nor his home always uncomfortable ; and in his breed...retained that decided regard which interested him in every thing that befell her, and made her his secret standard of perfection in woman ; and many a rising...
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Chapters from Jane Austen

Jane Austen - 1888 - 412 pages
...and his punishment was soon afterwards complete, in the voluntary forgiveness of Mrs. Smith, who, l>y stating his marriage with a woman of character as...uncomfortable ; and in his breed of horses and dogs, and in spoiling of every kind, he found no inconsiderable degree of domestic felicity. For Marianne, however,...
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Chapters from Jane Austen

Jane Austen - 1889 - 410 pages
...of her clemency, gave him reason for believing that had he behaved with honor towards Marianne lie might at once have been happy and rich. That his repentance...in his breed of horses and dogs, and in sporting of even' kind, he found no inconsiderable degree of domestic felicitj". For Marianne, however, in spite...
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The Novels of Jane Austen: Sense and sensibility

Jane Austen - 1892 - 256 pages
...neither. He lived to exert, and frequently to enjoy himself. His wife was not always out of humour, nor his home always uncomfortable! and in his breed...inconsiderable degree of domestic felicity. For Marianne, however—in spite of his incivility in surviving her loss—he always retained that decided regard...
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The Novels of Jane Austen: Sense and sensibility

Jane Austen - English fiction - 1892 - 248 pages
...neither. He lived to exert, and frequently to enjoy himself. His wife was not always out of humour, nor his home always uncomfortable! and in his breed...inconsiderable degree of domestic felicity. For Marianne, however—in spite of his incivility in surviving her loss—he always retained that decided regard...
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Heroines of Fiction, Volume 0

William Dean Howells - Literary Criticism - 1901 - 344 pages
...lived to exert, and frequently to enjoy himself. His wife was not always out of humor, nor his house always uncomfortable; and in his breed of horses and...found no inconsiderable degree of domestic felicity." It was not Jane Austen's way to do anything wholesale ; she was far too well acquainted with life,...
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