ANSWER in Classic Quotes

1  Mrs. Bennet was prevented replying by the entrance of the footman with a note for Miss Bennet; it came from Netherfield, and the servant waited for an answer.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

2  To this speech Bingley made no answer; but his sisters gave it their hearty assent, and indulged their mirth for some time at the expense of their dear friend's vulgar relations.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

3  An invitation to dinner was soon afterwards dispatched; and already had Mrs. Bennet planned the courses that were to do credit to her housekeeping, when an answer arrived which deferred it all.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

4  To the civil inquiries which then poured in, and amongst which she had the pleasure of distinguishing the much superior solicitude of Mr. Bingley's, she could not make a very favourable answer.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

5  Catherine was disconcerted, and made no answer; but Lydia, with perfect indifference, continued to express her admiration of Captain Carter, and her hope of seeing him in the course of the day, as he was going the next morning to London.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

6  Elizabeth passed the chief of the night in her sister's room, and in the morning had the pleasure of being able to send a tolerable answer to the inquiries which she very early received from Mr. Bingley by a housemaid, and some time afterwards from the two elegant ladies who waited on his sisters.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9