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1  She had to wear her cousin's clothes.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
2  His very clothes seemed to partake of the hospitable nature of the wearer.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
3  Amy does well without frettin, wearin her best clothes and eatin sweet stuff.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIXTEEN
4  If people care more for my clothes than they do for me, I don't wish to see them.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
5  It was not a wise thing to do, but I kept on worrying till an old man came in with an order for some clothes.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
6  I laughed all the way downstairs, but it was a little pathetic, also to think of the poor man having to mend his own clothes.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
7  She very soon discovered that there is a charm about fine clothes which attracts a certain class of people and secures their respect.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
8  She done out a tub of clothes on Monday, but she starched 'em afore they was wrenched, and blued a pink calico dress till I thought I should a died a laughin.'
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIXTEEN
9  This cave was made with a clothes horse for a roof, bureaus for walls, and in it was a small furnace in full blast, with a black pot on it and an old witch bending over it.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWO
10  She had never read Sartor Resartus, but she had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
11  Round shoulders had Jo, big hands and feet, a flyaway look to her clothes, and the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn't like it.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ONE
12  "That's loving our neighbor better than ourselves, and I like it," said Meg, as they set out their presents while their mother was upstairs collecting clothes for the poor Hummels.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWO
13  As the height of luxury, Meg put out some of her sewing, and then found time hang so heavily, that she fell to snipping and spoiling her clothes in her attempts to furbish them up a la Moffat.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
14  No pins were ever stuck into their cotton vitals, no harsh words or blows were ever given them, no neglect ever saddened the heart of the most repulsive, but all were fed and clothed, nursed and caressed with an affection which never failed.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
15  The young lady herself received the news as tidings of great joy, went about in a solemn sort of rapture, and began to sort her colors and pack her pencils that evening, leaving such trifles as clothes, money, and passports to those less absorbed in visions of art than herself.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY
16  His clothes were rusty, his hands were large, and he hadn't a really handsome feature in his face, except his beautiful teeth, yet I liked him, for he had a fine head, his linen was very nice, and he looked like a gentleman, though two buttons were off his coat and there was a patch on one shoe.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE