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1  She thought it was of no great value, but, being appropriate, she borrowed it, well knowing that Madame would never know it, nor care if she did.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINETEEN
2  It was one of the kind artists use to hold the paper on their drawing boards, therefore quite appropriate and effective for the purpose it was now being put.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
3  But he exulted in private and longed for the time to come when he could give Jo a piece of plate, with a bear and a ragged staff on it as an appropriate coat of arms.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
4  A cluster of grave yet cheerful pansies on a deeper purple ground was pronounced very appropriate and pretty, and Beth worked away early and late, with occasional lifts over hard parts.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIX
5  I think it very appropriate to you, and feel very grateful for your efforts to make it so pretty, but we must give up our private wishes, of course, and I will see that you have a good place elsewhere.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY
6  The other gentlemen speculated with equal rashness in all sorts of frail trifles, and wandered helplessly about afterward, burdened with wax flowers, painted fans, filigree portfolios, and other useful and appropriate purchases.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY
7  Hoping to impress the lesson more deeply, Mrs. March, who had a good deal of humor, resolved to finish off the trial in an appropriate manner, so she gave Hannah a holiday and let the girls enjoy the full effect of the play system.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
8  The 'haughty, uninteresting creature' was let severely alone, but Amy's talent and taste were duly complimented by the offer of the art table, and she exerted herself to prepare and secure appropriate and valuable contributions to it.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY
9  Her story was as full of desperation and despair as her limited acquaintance with those uncomfortable emotions enabled her to make it, and having located it in Lisbon, she wound up with an earthquake, as a striking and appropriate denouement.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN