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1  Instant silence fell on the gay throng, and not a.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TEN
2  They got up a masquerade, and had a gay time New Year's Eve.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
3  In spite of this affliction, she looked unusually gay and graceful as she glided away.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
4  So brilliant and gay without, for all the world seemed abroad to welcome the first snow.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY
5  He saw it at once and said with pleased surprise, "Why, little mother, how gay we are tonight."
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
6  The baths at Nassau were very gay, so was Baden-Baden, where Fred lost some money, and I scolded him.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
7  It's a dull day, but the air isn't bad, and I'm going to take Brooke home, so it will be gay inside, if it isn't out.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FIFTEEN
8  If she had, I should have felt as if I ought to do it, but Plumfield is about as gay as a churchyard, you know, and I'd rather be excused.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
9  Many nations are represented, many languages spoken, many costumes worn, and on a sunny day the spectacle is as gay and brilliant as a carnival.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
10  As that was impossible, she did her best to seem gay, and being rather excited, she succeeded so well that no one dreamed what an effort she was making.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
11  After the reading came the lesson, which was a lively one, for Jo was in a gay mood that night, and the cocked hat kept her eyes dancing with merriment.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
12  The parlor was always bright and attractive, the chessboard ready, the piano in tune, plenty of gay gossip, and a nice little supper set forth in tempting style.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
13  Such plays and tableaux, such sleigh rides and skating frolics, such pleasant evenings in the old parlor, and now and then such gay little parties at the great house.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIX
14  She tried not to be envious or discontented, but it was very natural that the young girl should long for pretty things, gay friends, accomplishments, and a happy life.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
15  "If that's the way he's going to grow up, I wish he'd stay a boy," she thought, with a curious sense of disappointment and discomfort, trying meantime to seem quite easy and gay.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
16  The equipages are as varied as the company and attract as much attention, especially the low basket barouches in which ladies drive themselves, with a pair of dashing ponies, gay nets to keep their voluminous flounces from overflowing the diminutive vehicles, and little grooms on the perch behind.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
17  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
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