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1  Only a rough sketch of Laurie taming a horse.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
2  And Beth looked at her rough hands with a sigh that any one could hear that time.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ONE
3  Rather a rough road for you to travel, my little pilgrims, especially the latter part of it.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
4  I will confess, though, I felt queer when I saw the dear old hair laid out on the table, and felt only the short rough ends of my head.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FIFTEEN
5  There a bare-legged shepherd, in wooden shoes, pointed hat, and rough jacket over one shoulder, sat piping on a stone while his goats skipped among the rocks or lay at his feet.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
6  How they ever grew up alive in that whirlpool of boys was a mystery to their grandma and aunts, but they flourished like dandelions in spring, and their rough nurses loved and served them well.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
7  It was a piteous sight, the once rosy face so changed and vacant, the once busy hands so weak and wasted, the once smiling lips quite dumb, and the once pretty, well-kept hair scattered rough and tangled on the pillow.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
8  So you must try to be contented with making your name boyish, and playing brother to us girls, said Beth, stroking the rough head with a hand that all the dish washing and dusting in the world could not make ungentle in its touch.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ONE
9  "I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else," said Jo, thinking that keeping her temper at home was a much harder task than facing a rebel or two down South.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ONE