APPLICATION in Classic Quotes

1  I must confess myself surprised by your application; I did not expect it from you.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 52

2  The surprise of such an application was great indeed; it was too great for her to know in what manner she acceded to it.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

3  Mary had neither genius nor taste; and though vanity had given her application, it had given her likewise a pedantic air and conceited manner, which would have injured a higher degree of excellence than she had reached.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

4  From what she had said of her resolution to prevent their marriage, it occurred to Elizabeth that she must meditate an application to her nephew; and how he might take a similar representation of the evils attached to a connection with her, she dared not pronounce.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 57

5  When those dances were over, she returned to Charlotte Lucas, and was in conversation with her, when she found herself suddenly addressed by Mr. Darcy who took her so much by surprise in his application for her hand, that, without knowing what she did, she accepted him.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

6  At one time she had almost resolved on applying to him, but the idea was checked by the awkwardness of the application, and at length wholly banished by the conviction that Mr. Darcy would never have hazarded such a proposal, if he had not been well assured of his cousin's corroboration.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36