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1  Not a bit of it, I'm dying to do it.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
2  And it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ONE
3  I've been sick with this cold so long, and shut up, I'm dying for some fun.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
4  Presently, as Jo's sobs quieted, he said hopefully, "I don't think she will die."
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
5  They both died when Laurie was a little child, and then his grandfather took him home.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
6  We didn't open it, but we are dying to know what he says, cried Jo, hugging her sister and offering the note.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIX
7  I suspect that the real attraction was a large library of fine books, which was left to dust and spiders since Uncle March died.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
8  You think so now, but there'll come a time when you will care for somebody, and you'll love him tremendously, and live and die for him.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
9  I'm sick of the sight of this, and there's no reason you should all die of a surfeit because I've been a fool, cried Amy, wiping her eyes.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
10  "The good and dear people always do die," groaned Jo, but she stopped crying, for her friend's words cheered her up in spite of her own doubts and fears.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
11  In her first effort at being very, very good, she decided to make her will, as Aunt March had done, so that if she did fall ill and die, her possessions might be justly and generously divided.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINETEEN
12  "I have neither, and very few friends to care whether I live or die," said Mr. Brooke rather bitterly as he absently put the dead rose in the hole he had made and covered it up, like a little grave.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
13  "I'll never tell him to my dying day, wild horses shan't drag it out of me, so you'll forgive me, Meg, and I'll do anything to show how out-and-out sorry I am," he added, looking very much ashamed of himself.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
14  Seldom except in books do the dying utter memorable words, see visions, or depart with beatified countenances, and those who have sped many parting souls know that to most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY
15  Meg's high-heeled slippers were very tight and hurt her, though she would not own it, and Jo's nineteen hairpins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable, but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THREE
16  Feeling very much out of sorts herself, Jo hurried into the parlor to find Beth sobbing over Pip, the canary, who lay dead in the cage with his little claws pathetically extended, as if imploring the food for want of which he had died.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
17  Here Meg meant to have a fountain, shrubbery, and a profusion of lovely flowers, though just at present the fountain was represented by a weather-beaten urn, very like a dilapidated slopbowl, the shrubbery consisted of several young larches, undecided whether to live or die, and the profusion of flowers was merely hinted by regiments of sticks to show where seeds were planted.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
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