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1  "No, I don't," was the blunt reply.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
2  We both bowed, and then we laughed, for the prim introduction and the blunt addition were rather a comical contrast.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
3  I'll try not to, but I'm always possessed to burst out with some particularly blunt speech or revolutionary sentiment before her.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
4  He liked Jo, for her odd, blunt ways suited him, and she seemed to understand the boy almost as well as if she had been one herself.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
5  Laurie turned red again, but wasn't offended at being accused of bashfulness, for there was so much good will in Jo it was impossible not to take her blunt speeches as kindly as they were meant.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
6  The old lady wouldn't speak to them for a time, but happening to meet Jo at a friend's, something in her comical face and blunt manners struck the old lady's fancy, and she proposed to take her for a companion.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
7  He had rather imagined that the denoument would take place in the chateau garden by moonlight, and in the most graceful and decorous manner, but it turned out exactly the reverse, for the matter was settled on the lake at noonday in a few blunt words.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE