refresh: P 47 her performance was little thought of, only out of civility, or to refresh the others.
regard: S S 235 without regarding them (a pair of screens) at all, returned them. M P 402 could not regard his future father-in-law with any idea of taking him for a model in dress; 190 ‘I caught a dreadful cold, but that I did not regard’; 389 Betsey was the first of her girls whom she had ever much regarded. E 163 had very highly regarded Fairfax.
regard = affection is less unemotional than now: S S 320 (Willoughby and Marianne) ‘trying to engage her regard, without a though of returning it’. P P 197 ‘without any symptom of peculiar regard’.
regardful: M P 414 regardful of others.
relation = narrative: S S 206 affected by his relation.
remove vb. intrans., and removal, have a wider application than is now current: P P 54 When the ladies removed after dinner. M P 399 preparing to remove as usual up stairs; 376 her present removal (from Mansfield to Portsmouth on a two months’ visit).
representative: M P 469 (Mary Crawford) was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20,000l. any one who could … put Edmund Bertram … out of her head. P 224 [Mary Musgrove] ‘Consider, my father’s heir -the future representative of the family’. [Charles Musgrove] ‘Don’t talk to me about heirs and representatives’. Cf. Nightmare Abbey (1818, p. 159): ‘We see children perishing in manufactories, where they [our ancestors] saw them flourishing in the fields.… We see masters, where they saw representatives. In short, they saw true men, where we see false knaves. They saw Milton, and we see Mr. Sackbut.’ (Dr. Bradley remarks that this precise shade of application seems to be ignored in all dictionaries.)
repulsive: M P 199 ‘his reserve may be a little repulsive’; 448 (Mrs. Norris) had not spirits to notice her in more than a few repulsive looks.
reserve: P P 217 the various engagements which the kindness of her aunt had reserved for them.
respectable: E 92 Mr. John Knightley was a tall, gentleman-like, and very clever man; rising in his profession, domestic, and respectable in his private character’. P P 135 ‘You (Jane Bennet) wish to think all the world respectable’; 157 ‘Lady Catherine is a very respectable, sensible woman indeed’. Cf.Boswell, Life of Johnson (22 September 1777) ‘He thus characterised the Duke of Devonshire, grandfather of the present representative of that very respectable family’.
retain: P P 187 the wish of retaining Mr. Bingley for his sister (had induced Darcy to detach him from Jane).
ridicule: E 453. (The perversion of réticule took place in French, not in English.)
ring up (a servant): S S 311.
run: E 197 the Crown Inn … where … post-horses were kept, more for the convenience of the neighbourhood than from any run on the road.
safe: N A 100 ‘with a safe conscience’.
scheme: P P 319 [Lydia Bennet] ‘Not one party, or scheme, or any thing’. Cf. Rambler 73: plans of elegance and schemes of pleasure.
secure normally, though not always, has the sense now hardly found except in false security: P P 334 she would not be secure; 189 He spoke of apprehension and anxiety, but his countenance expressed