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1  Jo nodded and laughed, and flourished her broom as she called out.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
2  Here's Meg married and a mamma, Amy flourishing away at Paris, and Beth in love.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
3  "Silence a la mort," replied Laurie, with a melodramatic flourish, as he went away.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
4  "The reward of merit for a magnanimous March," as Laurie announced with a flourish.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY
5  All sorts of pleasant things happened about that time, for the new friendship flourished like grass in spring.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIX
6  The correspondence flourished famously, and letters flew to and fro with unfailing regularity all through the early spring.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
7  was a capital little institution, and flourished wonderfully, for nearly as many queer things passed through it as through the real post office.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TEN
8  Quite absorbed in her work, Jo scribbled away till the last page was filled, when she signed her name with a flourish and threw down her pen, exclaiming.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOURTEEN
9  But now, thanks to my good old aunt, who loved me better than I ever deserved, I'm rich, at least I feel so, and we can live at Plumfield perfectly well, if we have a flourishing school.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
10  How they ever grew up alive in that whirlpool of boys was a mystery to their grandma and aunts, but they flourished like dandelions in spring, and their rough nurses loved and served them well.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
11  "Father, Mother, this is my friend, Professor Bhaer," she said, with a face and tone of such irrepressible pride and pleasure that she might as well have blown a trumpet and opened the door with a flourish.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
12  This note, prettily written on scented paper, was a great contrast to the next, which was scribbled on a big sheet of thin foreign paper, ornamented with blots and all manner of flourishes and curly-tailed letters.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIXTEEN
13  Then a family of six or seven boys sprung up like mushrooms, and flourished surprisingly, poor boys as well as rich, for Mr. Laurence was continually finding some touching case of destitution, and begging the Bhaers to take pity on the child, and he would gladly pay a trifle for its support.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN