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" Mrs. Ferrars was a little, thin woman, upright, even to formality, in her figure, and serious, even to sourness, in her aspect. Her complexion was sallow ; and her features small, without beauty, and naturally without expression ; but a lucky contraction... "
Sense and Sensibility - Page 200
by Jane Austen - 1913 - 347 pages
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Sense and Sensibility: A Novel

Jane Austen - 1833 - 370 pages
...complexion was sallow ; and her features small, without beauty, and naturally without expression ; but a lucky contraction of the .brow had rescued her...proportioned them to the number of her ideas ; and of the few syllables that did escape her, not one fell to the share of Miss Dashwood, whom she eyed...
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Sense and Sensibility: a Novel

Jane Austen - 1833 - 372 pages
...complexion was sallow ; and her features small, without beauty, and naturally without expression ; but a lucky contraction of the brow had rescued her...proportioned them to the number of her ideas ; and of the few syllables that did escape her, not one fell to the share of Miss Dashwood, whom she eyed...
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Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion ...

Jane Austen - 1864 - 530 pages
...complexion was sallow ; and her features small, without beauty, and naturally without expression ; but a lucky contraction of the brow had rescued her...proportioned them to the number of her ideas; and of the few syllables that did escape her, not one fell to the share of Miss Dashwood, whom she eyed...
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Sense & Sensibility

Jane Austen - English literature - 1882 - 342 pages
...Her complexion was sallow; and her features small, without beauty, and naturally without expression; but a lucky contraction of the brow had rescued her...proportioned them to the number of her ideas; and of the few syllables that did escape her, not one fell to the share of Miss Dashwood, whom she eyed...
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Chapters from Jane Austen

Jane Austen - 1888 - 412 pages
...and fond of none but her own family. . Mrs. Ferrnrs: a wealthy widow of a narrow, sour disposition. ' A lucky contraction of the brow had rescued her countenance...it the strong characters of pride and ill-nature.' Mrs. Jennings: Mother of Lady Middleton and Mrs. Palmer. An old woman with not much refinement, but...
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The Story of Jane Austen's Life

Oscar Fay Adams - Novelists, English - 1891 - 304 pages
...whose face expressed " strong, natural, sterling insignificance," and of his mother also, with whom " a lucky contraction of the brow had rescued her countenance...it the strong characters of pride and ill-nature," and whose words, not being many, were " proportioned to the number of her ideas." Indeed, in " Northanger...
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The Novels of Jane Austen: Sense and sensibility

Jane Austen - English fiction - 1892 - 248 pages
...complexion was sallow : and her features small, without beauty, and naturally without expression : but a lucky contraction of the brow had rescued her...proportioned them to the number of her ideas : and of the few syllables that did escape her, not one fell to the share of Miss Dashwood, whom she eyed...
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The Novels of Jane Austen: Sense and sensibility

Jane Austen - 1892 - 244 pages
...complexion was sallow : and her features small, without beauty, and naturally without expression : but a lucky contraction of the brow had rescued her...proportioned them to the number of her ideas : and of the few syllables that did escape her, not one fell to the share of Miss Dashwood, whom she eyed...
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Sense and Sensibility, Volume 2

Jane Austen - England - 1899 - 314 pages
...Her complexion was sallow, and her features small, without beauty, and naturally without expression; but a lucky contraction of the brow had rescued her...proportioned them to the number of her ideas ; and of the few syllables that did escape her, not one fell to the share of Miss Dashwood, whom she eyed...
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The Oxford Point of View, Volume 2

1903 - 300 pages
...excellent; and so too is chapter xxxiv, and more especially the conversation after dinner. Mrs. Ferrars " was not a woman of many words ; for, unlike people...she proportioned them to the number of her ideas." " No poverty of any kind, except of conversation, appeared ; but there the deficiency was considerable....
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