All 18 Uses of
anxiety
in
Mansfield Park
- In the country, therefore, the Miss Bertrams continued to exercise their memories, practise their duets, and grow tall and womanly: and their father saw them becoming in person, manner, and accomplishments, everything that could satisfy his anxiety.†
Chpt 2
- The arrival, therefore, of a sister whom she had always loved, and now hoped to retain with her as long as she remained single, was highly agreeable; and her chief anxiety was lest Mansfield should not satisfy the habits of a young woman who had been mostly used to London.†
Chpt 4
- She began then to be afraid of appearing rude and impatient; and walked to meet them with a great anxiety to avoid the suspicion.†
Chpt 7 *
- Sir Thomas wrote of it with as much decision as experience and anxiety could authorise.†
Chpt 11
- And as to my father's being absent, it is so far from an objection, that I consider it rather as a motive; for the expectation of his return must be a very anxious period to my mother; and if we can be the means of amusing that anxiety, and keeping up her spirits for the next few weeks, I shall think our time very well spent, and so, I am sure, will he.†
Chpt 13
- To be sure, my dear mother, your anxiety—I was unlucky there.†
Chpt 13
- Fanny, who had heard it all, and borne Edmund company in every feeling throughout the whole, now ventured to say, in her anxiety to suggest some comfort, "Perhaps they may not be able to find any play to suit them.†
Chpt 13
- This deeper anxiety swallowed them up.†
Chpt 16
- Henry Crawford's retaining her hand at such a moment, a moment of such peculiar proof and importance, was worth ages of doubt and anxiety.†
Chpt 19
- She had no anxieties for anybody to cloud her pleasure: her own time had been irreproachably spent during his absence: she had done a great deal of carpet-work, and made many yards of fringe; and she would have answered as freely for the good conduct and useful pursuits of all the young people as for her own.†
Chpt 19
- "Still the same anxiety for everybody's comfort, my dear Mrs. Norris," was his answer.†
Chpt 19
- As to anxiety for any alarm that her absence in such weather might occasion at home, she had nothing to suffer on that score; for as her being out was known only to her two aunts, she was perfectly aware that none would be felt, and that in whatever cottage aunt Norris might chuse to establish her during the rain, her being in such cottage would be indubitable to aunt Bertram.†
Chpt 22
- Always some little objection, some little doubt, some little anxiety to be got over.†
Chpt 23
- "You are mistaken, sir," cried Fanny, forced by the anxiety of the moment even to tell her uncle that he was wrong; "you are quite mistaken.†
Chpt 32
- …very few days more to be spent at Mansfield; and for part of one of those days the young travellers were in a good deal of alarm on the subject of their journey, for when the mode of it came to be talked of, and Mrs. Norris found that all her anxiety to save her brother-in-law's money was vain, and that in spite of her wishes and hints for a less expensive conveyance of Fanny, they were to travel post; when she saw Sir Thomas actually give William notes for the purpose, she was struck…†
Chpt 37
- The sufferings which Lady Bertram did not see had little power over her fancy; and she wrote very comfortably about agitation, and anxiety, and poor invalids, till Tom was actually conveyed to Mansfield, and her own eyes had beheld his altered appearance.†
Chpt 44
- Write to me by return of post, judge of my anxiety, and do not trifle with it.†
Chpt 45
- Fanny began to dread the meeting with her aunts and Tom, under so dreadful a humiliation; and Susan to feel with some anxiety, that all her best manners, all her lately acquired knowledge of what was practised here, was on the point of being called into action.†
Chpt 46
Definition:
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(anxiety) nervousness or worry