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1  Things seem so cheap, nice ribbons only sixpence a yard.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
2  all hope, tie a black ribbon to her basket, set aside her.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TEN
3  Amy put a blue ribbon on the boy and a pink on the girl, French fashion, so you can always tell.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
4  Yes, I want some twilled silesia, a paper of number nine needles, and two yards of narrow lavender ribbon.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
5  Just frizzle it, and tie your ribbon so the ends come on your forehead a bit, and it will look like the last fashion.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THREE
6  She had not heart enough even to make herself pretty as usual by putting on a blue neck ribbon and dressing her hair in the most becoming way.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
7  "And such lovely weather, I'm so glad of that," added Beth, tidily sorting neck and hair ribbons in her best box, lent for the great occasion.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
8  Laurie obediently threw himself down on the turf, and began to amuse himself by sticking daisies into the ribbons of Amy's hat, that lay there.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
9  Jo bore up very well till the last flutter of blue ribbon vanished, when she retired to her refuge, the garret, and cried till she couldn't cry any more.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY
10  Then she tied it up with a smart red ribbon, and sat a minute looking at it with a sober, wistful expression, which plainly showed how earnest her work had been.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOURTEEN
11  "Any more than it's proper to wear all your bonnets and gowns and ribbons at once, that folks may know you've got them," added Jo, and the lecture ended in a laugh.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SEVEN
12  "She took it out a minute ago, and went off with it to put a ribbon on it, or some such notion," replied Jo, dancing about the room to take the first stiffness off the new army slippers.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWO
13  She upset the tray of needles, forgot the silesia was to be 'twilled' till it was cut off, gave the wrong change, and covered herself with confusion by asking for lavender ribbon at the calico counter.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
14  This phantom wore many faces, but it always had golden hair, was enveloped in a diaphanous cloud, and floated airily before his mind's eye in a pleasing chaos of roses, peacocks, white ponies, and blue ribbons.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
15  As Laurie spoke, he delivered a brown paper parcel to Meg, pulled Beth's hair ribbon, stared at Jo's big pinafore, and fell into an attitude of mock rapture before Amy, then shook hands all round, and everyone began to talk.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
16  Everything about her mutely suggested love and sorrow, the blotted letters in her lap, the black ribbon that tied up her hair, the womanly pain and patience in her face, even the little ebony cross at her throat seemed pathetic to Laurie, for he had given it to her, and she wore it as her only ornament.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
17  Jo's cheeks were as red as her ribbon, and she wondered what he thought of her, but she didn't care, for in a minute she found herself walking away arm in arm with her Professor, feeling as if the sun had suddenly burst out with uncommon brilliancy, that the world was all right again, and that one thoroughly happy woman was paddling through the wet that day.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
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