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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, about a strangely familiar English family called the Bennets that is struggling to marry off five daughters while at the same time fighting off wave after wave of relentless, remorseless undead - since, as the novel's classic first line tells us, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains."
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His name had once been Ark Bennet, son of Errol Bennet, of the Old Family Bennets, and he knew the man who was currently in his sights had dinner with him, played with his two sons.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011
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Then Ross writes: When Lady Catherine de Bourgh, in high dudgeon, calls on the Bennets in Pride and Prejudice to dissuade Elizabeth from marrying her nephew Darcy, she does not ask Lizzy to introduce her mother, and sits for some time in the presence of awed Mrs. Bennet, who has therefore not been granted permission to converse with her Ladyship in her own house.
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Then Ross writes: When Lady Catherine de Bourgh, in high dudgeon, calls on the Bennets in Pride and Prejudice to dissuade Elizabeth from marrying her nephew Darcy, she does not ask Lizzy to introduce her mother, and sits for some time in the presence of awed Mrs. Bennet, who has therefore not been granted permission to converse with her Ladyship in her own house.
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It opens with the parent Bennets at home — the mother is, as expected, pondering the suitability of noblemen new to the neighborhood as husbands for her daughters, but dad is much more proactive than in the book.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel » Comics Worth Reading 2010
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His name had once been Ark Bennet, son of Errol Bennet, of the Old Family Bennets, and he knew the man who was currently in his sights had dinner with him, played with his two sons.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011
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The Bennets home was portrayed as dirty and the family looked like they didnt bathe, but I doubt Jane Austen meant to picture this in any way.
Modest Active Wear 2009
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Tracy, in the form of water, seeped through the dirt to reach the entombed Bennets.
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When I got back in the car, you and the Bennets were in the middle of a conversation.
WRECKED CAROL HIGGINS CLARK 2010
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When I got back in the car, you and the Bennets were in the middle of a conversation.
WRECKED CAROL HIGGINS CLARK 2010
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