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- This benefit conferred gives you an unlimited claim on my gratitude, and a claim, to a certain extent, on my confidence.Chapter 29 (80% in)
- I'll get admitted there, and I'll stir up mutiny; and you, three-tailed bashaw as you are, sir, shall in a trice find yourself fettered amongst our hands: nor will I, for one, consent to cut your bonds till you have signed a charter, the most liberal that despot ever yet conferred."Chapter 24 (74% in)
- The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all; and to "burst" with boldness and good-will into "the silent sea" of their souls is often to confer on them the first of obligations.Chapter 32 (65% in)
There are no more uses of "confer" in Jane Eyre.
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