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Quotes from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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1  The girls is clever and fly round right smart.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIXTEEN
2  But you must help me, remind me, and keep me from flying out.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
3  Zara replied and, after a musical dialogue, consented to fly.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWO
4  I can go anywhere, do anything, he said, looking ready to fly to the ends of the earth.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FIFTEEN
5  "I have great hopes for my boy," observed Jo, watching him fly over the fence with an approving smile.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
6  You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
7  Taking no more notice of her than if she had been a fly, Mr. Laurence talked on about Laurie's lessons and teachers.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIX
8  Hold up your dress and put your hat on straight, it looks sentimental tipped that way and will fly off at the first puff.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
9  So was the plum pudding, which melted in one's mouth, likewise the jellies, in which Amy reveled like a fly in a honeypot.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
10  Margaret, tell me the whole story, commanded Mrs. March, sitting down by Meg, yet keeping hold of Jo, lest she should fly off.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
11  There was a crowd about it all day long, and the tenders were constantly flying to and fro with important faces and rattling money boxes.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY
12  "I like good strong words that mean something," replied Jo, catching her hat as it took a leap off her head preparatory to flying away altogether.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
13  "Now let's fly round, and do double duty today, so that we can play tomorrow with free minds," said Jo, preparing to replace her pen with a broom.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
14  So she took Amy by the hand, and taught her as she herself had been taught sixty years ago, a process which carried dismay to Amy's soul, and made her feel like a fly in the web of a very strict spider.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINETEEN
15  Laurie reached the goal first and was quite satisfied with the success of his treatment, for his Atlanta came panting up with flying hair, bright eyes, ruddy cheeks, and no signs of dissatisfaction in her face.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOURTEEN
16  Meg rose as she spoke, and was just going to rehearse the dignified exit, when a step in the hall made her fly into her seat and begin to sew as fast as if her life depended on finishing that particular seam in a given time.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
17  The 'queer feeling' did not pass away, but she imagined herself acting the new part of fine lady and so got on pretty well, though the tight dress gave her a side-ache, the train kept getting under her feet, and she was in constant fear lest her earrings should fly off and get lost or broken.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
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