where : cf. there. P P 15 the power of being agreeable where they chose it (when in some reprints) ; 82, 119 ‘to marry elsewhere’ ; 183 ‘Younger sons cannot marry where they like’. M P 26 ; 237 the means of conferring a kindness where he wished to oblige ; 294 man … sometimes loves where it (sweetness of character) is not. S S 49 sacrificing general politeness to the enjoyment of undivided attention where his heart was engaged.

wish : see may.

with : speak with is regular : P P 345 ‘I want to speak with you’. S S 216 leave her card with her ; 273 [Miss Steele] ‘did not know what was become with him’.

withhold : S S 180 frequent bursts of grief … obliged her, at intervals, to withhold her pen.

within : E 278 ‘not being within when he called’. N A 94 ‘I was not within at the time’.

within side : E 83 had never been within side the Vicarage.

without : M P 257 without doors.

witness : E 397 ‘Composure with a witness !’ (vengeance).

woman : P P 353 waiting-woman. M P 271 (the first edition) sent her own woman to assist her (altered in the second edition to maid).

work meaning needlework, or similar feminine employment, occurs in contexts which would hardly now limit it so strictly : M P 398 the girls came to spend the chief of the morning upstairs, at first only in working and talking (but afterwards also in reading). E 264 as she sat drawing or working. S S 144 ‘ring the bell for some working candles’. In a list (1806) of books published by J. Taylor, High

Holborn, is a Collection of Designs for Household Furniture, including ‘Tables for Libraries, Writing, Work, Drawing, &c.’

work v.t. : N A 193 Catherine had expected to have her feelings worked, and worked they were.

worst : P 6 every face in the neighbourhood worsting.

wring intransitive : S S 268 Elinor’s heart wrung for the feelings of Edward.

yester : P 126 yester morn ; cf. Letters 14 September 1804 ‘I called yesterday morning (ought it not in strict propriety to be termed yester-morning?)’.

you reflexive, in the same person as the subject, where we now say yourself : M P 242 ‘You must make you a new garden’.


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