1 Such trifles do escape the editorial mind, it is said.
2 And Jo blushed at the dreadful 'pegging' which had escaped her.
3 Jo and Fred had several skirmishes and once narrowly escaped high words.
4 and Jo looked a little queer likewise, for a name had almost escaped her.
5 That's the very reason you ought to go away at once, so that you may escape it.
6 Pay when it comes out, returned Mr. Dashwood, as if that point had escaped him.
7 Never mind what John said, or what a very narrow escape the little bonnet had from utter ruin.
8 She got through her lessons as well as she could, and managed to escape reprimands by being a model of deportment.
9 Amy caught herself up short as the words escaped her, and looked at her husband, who replied, with malicious gravity.
10 Not a speck escaped Aunt March's eye, and all the furniture had claw legs and much carving, which was never dusted to suit.
11 They all liked Jo immensely, but never fell in love with her, though very few escaped without paying the tribute of a sentimental sigh or two at Amy's shrine.
12 All the blame of this should have fallen upon Jo, for her naughty imitation had been too lifelike to escape detection, and the frolicsome Lambs had permitted the joke to escape.
13 Not a word did she say, however, till her mother found her in tears one day, and insisted on knowing what the matter was, for Meg's drooping spirits had not escaped her observation.
14 The old gentleman did not say much as he drank his four cups of tea, but he watched the young people, who soon chatted away like old friends, and the change in his grandson did not escape him.
15 Poor Jo, how she did glorify that plain man, as she sat knitting away so quietly, yet letting nothing escape her, not even the fact that Mr. Bhaer actually had gold sleeve-buttons in his immaculate wristbands.
16 With that she rushed across the street so impetuously that she narrowly escaped annihilation from a passing truck, and precipitated herself into the arms of a stately old gentleman, who said, "I beg pardon, ma'am," and looked mortally offended.
17 In the present instance there was no escape, and having clashed her scissors rebelliously, while protesting that she smelled thunder, she gave in, put away her work, and taking up her hat and gloves with an air of resignation, told Amy the victim was ready.
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