All 8 Uses of
alliance
in
Emma
- This, Harriet, is an alliance which can never raise a blush in either of us.†
Chpt 1.9-10 *
- This is an alliance which, whoever—whatever your friends may be, must be agreeable to them, provided at least they have common sense; and we are not to be addressing our conduct to fools.†
Chpt 1.9-10
- I need not so totally despair of an equal alliance, as to be addressing myself to Miss Smith!†
Chpt 1.15-16
- …Abbey estate, to which all the rest of Highbury belonged; but their fortune, from other sources, was such as to make them scarcely secondary to Donwell Abbey itself, in every other kind of consequence; and the Woodhouses had long held a high place in the consideration of the neighbourhood which Mr. Elton had first entered not two years ago, to make his way as he could, without any alliances but in trade, or any thing to recommend him to notice but his situation and his civility.†
Chpt 1.15-16
- She brought no name, no blood, no alliance.†
Chpt 2.3-4
- The rich brother-in-law near Bristol was the pride of the alliance, and his place and his carriages were the pride of him.†
Chpt 2.13-14
- She felt all the honest pride and complacency which her alliance with the present and future proprietor could fairly warrant, as she viewed the respectable size and style of the building, its suitable, becoming, characteristic situation, low and sheltered—its ample gardens stretching down to meadows washed by a stream, of which the Abbey, with all the old neglect of prospect, had scarcely a sight—and its abundance of timber in rows and avenues, which neither fashion nor extravagance…†
Chpt 3.5-6
- She had led her friend astray, and it would be a reproach to her for ever; but her judgment was as strong as her feelings, and as strong as it had ever been before, in reprobating any such alliance for him, as most unequal and degrading.†
Chpt 3.13-14
Definition:
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(alliance) an association formed to support common interests