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Pride and Prejudice

By: Jane Austen

...ey been only ten minutes sooner, they should have been beyond the reach of his discrimination, for it was plain that he was that moment arrived, that ...

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The Bostonians

By: Henry James

...looking at him kindly, as she could not help doing, but without the smallest discrimination as against others who might not have the good fortune (whi...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

... tell a calf’s head from their own heads; which, indeed, requires uncommon discrimination. And that is the reason why a young buck with an intelligent...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...ty of talk for the others, however, and he appeared to eat his luncheon with discrimination and appetite. Miss Molyneux, who had a smooth, nun like fo... ...ave been to close that rare volume for ever. But Lily knew nothing of these discriminations, and could only pronounce her sister’s career a strange a... ...n of the mustiest relics of its old society. In all this there was much less discrimination than in that desire for comprehensiveness of development o... ...here was something irritating—there was almost an air of mockery—in her neat discriminations and clear convictions. In Isabel’s mind to day there was ...

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French Ways and Their Meaning

By: Edith Wharton

...on education: to a certain degree their instinct takes the place of acquired discrimination. But they set a greater store on it than any other races b... ...the same level of education as those of the cinema halls enjoying with keen discrimination a tragedy by Racine or a drama of Victor Hugo’s. In Americ...

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Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

... not. She was always so gentle and retiring, that her emotions were beyond his discrimination. He did not understand her; he felt that he did not; and...

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Sense and Sensibility

By: Jane Austen

...d is disgusted with such pretensions, he affects greater indifference and less discrimination in viewing them himself than he possesses. He is fastidi...

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The Golden Bowl

By: Henry James

...await me. I am afraid I had at stray moments wasted time in wondering what discrimination against the freedom of the needle and the sponge would be ab... ...se, you see, I speak French,” he had said; intimating thus that there were discriminations, doubtless of the invidious kind, for which that language w... ...’s real, precisely, rather keeps people in.” He had been interested in his discrimination, which amused him. “No, it’s his way. It belongs to him.” Bu... ... it, giving him, as it did, a glimpse, distinctly pleasing, of the kind of discriminations she would in general be governed by—which were quite such a... ... she looked even more in the fashion of the hour than she desired. Full of discriminations against the obvious, she had yet to accept a flagrant appear... ...htness and brightness only from knowing that the Prince was also there—the discrimination of but a moment, yet which let him take her in still better ... ...well, Amerigo’s very discretions were his way of taking account of it. His discriminations in re spect to his heir were in fine not more angular than ... ...k one as vivid, in any case, when Mr. Gutermann Seuss, with a sharpness of discrimination he had at first scarce seemed to promise, invited his eminent... ...otion of course that she gave a glimpse of but few of her grounds for this discrimination—indeed of the most Book III, Chapter 1 135 evident alone; y...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...rather rude. “Exactly,” said Sir James. “But you seem to have the power of discrimination.” “On the contrary, I am often unable to decide. But that is... ...with Lindley Murray and Mangnall’s Questions was something like a draper’s discrimination of calico trademarks, or a courier’s acquaintance with forei... ...ed apart on their stations up the mountain they looked down with imperfect discrimination on the belts of thicker life below. And Dorothea was not at ... ...ed to the full the clergyman’s privilege of disregarding the Mid dlemarch discrimination of ranks, and always told his mother that Mrs. Garth was mor... ...se was something distinct from his own rectitude of conduct: it enforced a discrimination of God’s enemies, who were to be used merely as instruments,...

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