Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.