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1  your ambitious soul cannot refuse the Earl of Devereux.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TEN
2  I'm not ambitious for a splendid fortune, a fashionable position, or a great name for my girls.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY
3  It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
4  The solitary woman felt an interest in the ambitious girl, and kindly conferred many favors of this sort both on Jo and the Professor.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
5  The purpose which now took possession of her was a natural one to a poor and ambitious girl, but the means she took to gain her end were not the best.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
6  My dear girls, I am ambitious for you, but not to have you make a dash in the world, marry rich men merely because they are rich, or have splendid houses, which are not homes because love is wanting.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
7  After many skirmishes and snubbings, the ambitious pair were considered effectually quenched and went about with forlorn faces, which were rather belied by explosions of laughter when the two got together.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
8  But great plans fermented in her busy brain and ambitious mind, and the old tin kitchen in the garret held a slowly increasing pile of blotted manuscript, which was one day to place the name of March upon the roll of fame.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR