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1  Many were the complaints below, and great the chagrin of the head cook at her failures.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
2  Jo was through the last wicket and had missed the stroke, which failure ruffled her a good deal.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
3  Meg thought it was too cruel to hint about her sad failure, and the last atom of patience vanished as he spoke.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
4  It took his fancy immensely, and he put it on his mantlepiece as an article of virtue, so it was rather a failure after all.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
5  I had a hard time, Jo, and shed a good many bitter tears over my failures, for in spite of my efforts I never seemed to get on.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
6  Jo laughed noiselessly all through the hall, but Amy looked disgusted at the failure of her instructions, and very naturally laid the blame upon Jo.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
7  Goodness knows I need a little change, for elegance has a bad effect upon my constitution, returned Jo gruffly, being disturbed by her failure to suit.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
8  So I made myself respectable and tried to slip in behind Mrs. Kirke, but as she is short and I'm tall, my efforts at concealment were rather a failure.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
9  Amy's lecture put the matter in a new light, and for the first time it did look weak and selfish to lose heart at the first failure, and shut himself up in moody indifference.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
10  You say nothing about your trials, failures, or successes, and think, perhaps, that no one sees them but the Friend whose help you daily ask, if I may trust the well-worn cover of your guidebook.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
11  Sometimes her family were invited in to help eat up a too bounteous feast of successes, or Lotty would be privately dispatched with a batch of failures, which were to be concealed from all eyes in the convenient stomachs of the little Hummels.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
12  For a minute Jo's heart stood still, as he swung himself down the bank toward the river, but it takes much folly, sin or misery to send a young man to a violent death, and Laurie was not one of the weak sort who are conquered by a single failure.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
13  I had a very happy New Year, after all, and when I thought it over in my room, I felt as if I was getting on a little in spite of my many failures, for I'm cheerful all the time now, work with a will, and take more interest in other people than I used to, which is satisfactory.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
14  They had a long talk that night, and Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seemed to have made a man of him, given him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT