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1  Let her alone, be kind and patient, and Father's coming will settle everything, replied her mother.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
2  Go on, dear, patiently and bravely, and always believe that no one sympathizes more tenderly with you than your loving.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
3  Be patient, Jo, don't get despondent or do rash things, write to me often, and be my brave girl, ready to help and cheer all.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIXTEEN
4  They ought to have told me, and not let me go blundering and scolding, when I should have been more kind and patient than ever.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
5  Every stitch Daisy's patient little fingers had put into the handkerchiefs she hemmed was better than embroidery to Mrs. March.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
6  If Meg had wanted a reward for hours of patient labor, she received it in the hearty pressure of her father's hand and the approving smile he gave her.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
7  Poor Jo tried desperately to be good, but her bosom enemy was always ready to flame up and defeat her, and it took years of patient effort to subdue it.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
8  Jo devoted herself to Beth day and night, not a hard task, for Beth was very patient, and bore her pain uncomplainingly as long as she could control herself.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
9  He never lets me see his anxiety, but is so sweet and patient with me, so devoted to Beth, and such a stay and comfort to me always that I can't love him enough.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
10  Here it is, and we never can thank you enough for the patient sowing and reaping you have done, cried Jo, with the loving impetuosity which she never would outgrow.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
11  I think it was meant to be so, and would have come about naturally, if I had waited, as you tried to make me, but I never could be patient, and so I got a heartache.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
12  It was only half a dozen little fairy tales, but Jo had worked over them patiently, putting her whole heart into her work, hoping to make something good enough to print.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
13  A restless spirit possessed her, and the old feeling came again, not bitter as it once was, but a sorrowfully patient wonder why one sister should have all she asked, the other nothing.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
14  The Professor was very patient with me, but it must have been torment to him, and now and then he'd look at me with such an expression of mild despair that it was a toss-up with me whether to laugh or cry.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
15  Amy did not come, Meg went to her room to try on a new dress, Jo was absorbed in her story, and Hannah was sound asleep before the kitchen fire, when Beth quietly put on her hood, filled her basket with odds and ends for the poor children, and went out into the chilly air with a heavy head and a grieved look in her patient eyes.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
16  But somehow envy and discontent soon vanished when she thought of all the patient love and labor John had put into the little home awaiting her, and when they sat together in the twilight, talking over their small plans, the future always grew so beautiful and bright that she forgot Sallie's splendor and felt herself the richest, happiest girl in Christendom.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
17  For, as quick to hear her sobbing as she had been to hear her sister's faintest whisper, her mother came to comfort her, not with words only, but the patient tenderness that soothes by a touch, tears that were mute reminders of a greater grief than Jo's, and broken whispers, more eloquent than prayers, because hopeful resignation went hand-in-hand with natural sorrow.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
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