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1  Grasshoppers skipped briskly in the sere grass, and crickets chirped like fairy pipers at a feast.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
2  He had fumed inwardly during the feast, but when the flurry was over and he strolled home after seeing Scott off, a milder mood came over him.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
3  Two easy chairs stood side by side at the head of the table, in which sat Beth and her father, feasting modestly on chicken and a little fruit.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
4  Meg helped Jo clear away the remains of the feast, which took half the afternoon and left them so tired that they agreed to be contented with tea and toast for supper.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
5  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
6  A smart shower at eleven had evidently quenched the enthusiasm of the young ladies who were to arrive at twelve, for nobody came, and at two the exhausted family sat down in a blaze of sunshine to consume the perishable portions of the feast, that nothing might be lost.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
7  Scarlet with shame and anger, Amy went to and fro six dreadful times, and as each doomed couple, looking oh, so plump and juicy, fell from her reluctant hands, a shout from the street completed the anguish of the girls, for it told them that their feast was being exulted over by the little Irish children, who were their sworn foes.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SEVEN
8  After this, Meg had Mr. Scott to dinner by special invitation, and served him up a pleasant feast without a cooked wife for the first course, on which occasion she was so gay and gracious, and made everything go off so charmingly, that Mr. Scott told John he was a lucky fellow, and shook his head over the hardships of bachelorhood all the way home.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
9  "Well, they can eat beef and bread and butter, if they are hungry, only it's mortifying to have to spend your whole morning for nothing," thought Jo, as she rang the bell half an hour later than usual, and stood, hot, tired, and dispirited, surveying the feast spread before Laurie, accustomed to all sorts of elegance, and Miss Crocker, whose tattling tongue would report them far and wide.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN