Sample Sentences for
Jane Austen
(editor-reviewed)

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    I read my books like Anna Karenina and the novels of Jane Austen and trusted in my father's words: "Malala is free as a bird."†  (source)
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    Another reason Mychal and I were doomed—he doesn't want to have sex unless he's in love, and yes, I know that virginity is a misogynistic and oppressive social construct, but I still want to lose it, and meanwhile I've got this boy hemming and hawing like we're in a Jane Austen novel.†  (source)
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    My new colleague's name is Eleanor Pribst, and I would love to read what Jane Austen might have written about her.†  (source)
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    I waited patiently—years—for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer.†  (source)
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    But insulated by her money, a staff of paid attendants, and unwavering selfabsorption, Pittman was heedless of the resentment and scorn she inspired in others; she remained as oblivious as Jane Austen's Emma.†  (source)
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    I have the fancy for rather spicy things, you know, not for the shade of the cedar tree, the cucumber sandwich, the silver cream-jug, the English girl dressed in whatever English girls do wear for tennis—not that, not Jane Austen, not M-m-miss M-m-mitford.†  (source)
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    It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.†  (source)
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    She laughs and says maybe she'll see him in Spanish as she strolls to Jane Austen and the Victorians.†  (source)
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    In Jane Austen's Persuasion I had come across the lines, "she had been forced into prudence in her youth—she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning."†  (source)
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    Professing myself, moreover, convinced that the General's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled by whomsoever it may concern.... Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey†  (source)
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    I had a small collection of books that came with me to Forks, the shabbiest volume being a compilation of the works of Jane Austen.†  (source)
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    Jane Austen,Virginia Woolf, and Alice in Wonderland definitely served to fill the time and keep me company inside my head, but I was really lonely in my actual physical life.†  (source)
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    She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home—Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets.†  (source)
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