All 13 Uses of
correspond
in
Mansfield Park
- "Miss Price has a brother at sea," said Edmund, "whose excellence as a correspondent makes her think you too severe upon us."
Chpt 6correspondent = someone who writes letters
- …for he was still only a midshipman; and as his parents, from living on the spot, must already have seen him, and be seeing him perhaps daily, his direct holidays might with justice be instantly given to the sister, who had been his best correspondent through a period of seven years, and the uncle who had done most for his support and advancement;
Chpt 24
- I have two favours to ask, Fanny: one is your correspondence.
Chpt 36correspondence = communication by writing letters
- The first, at least, of these favours Fanny would rather not have been asked; but it was impossible for her to refuse the correspondence; it was impossible for her even not to accede to it more readily than her own judgment authorised.
Chpt 36
- Lady Bertram had been telling her niece in the evening to write to her soon and often, and promising to be a good correspondent herself; and Edmund, at a convenient moment, then added in a whisper, "And I shall write to you, Fanny, when I have anything worth writing about, anything to say that I think you will like to hear, and that you will not hear so soon from any other quarter."
Chpt 37correspondent = letter writer
- It was a correspondence which Fanny found quite as unpleasant as she had feared.
Chpt 38correspondence = communication by writing letters
- There had, in fact, been so much of message, of allusion, of recollection, so much of Mansfield in every letter, that Fanny could not but suppose it meant for him to hear; and to find herself forced into a purpose of that kind, compelled into a correspondence which was bringing her the addresses of the man she did not love, and obliging her to administer to the adverse passion of the man she did, was cruelly mortifying.
Chpt 38
- When no longer under the same roof with Edmund, she trusted that Miss Crawford would have no motive for writing strong enough to overcome the trouble, and that at Portsmouth their correspondence would dwindle into nothing.
Chpt 38 *
- Fanny was right enough in not expecting to hear from Miss Crawford now at the rapid rate in which their correspondence had begun; Mary's next letter was after a decidedly longer interval than the last, but she was not right in supposing that such an interval would be felt a great relief to herself.
Chpt 40
- Her correspondence with her aunt Bertram was her only concern of higher interest.
Chpt 40
- For though Lady Bertram rather shone in the epistolary line, having early in her marriage, from the want of other employment, and the circumstance of Sir Thomas's being in Parliament, got into the way of making and keeping correspondents, and formed for herself a very creditable, common-place, amplifying style, so that a very little matter was enough for her: she could not do entirely without any; she must have something to write about, even to her niece; and being so soon to lose all…†
Chpt 44
- Her representation of her cousin's state at this time was exactly according to her own belief of it, and such as she supposed would convey to the sanguine mind of her correspondent the hope of everything she was wishing for.
Chpt 45correspondent = person exchanging letters
- ...there must have been some strong indiscretion, since her correspondent was not of a sort to regard a slight one.
Chpt 46correspondent = person who wrote the letter