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1  If it fails, they generously give her the whole.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
2  You are so generous and kind-hearted that you let people borrow, and can't say 'No' to anyone.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
3  We'll have a good time ourselves, and add an extra relish to our own pleasure by giving other people a generous taste.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
4  I don't think his family would object, and I should be very happy, for they are all kind, well-bred, generous people, and they like me.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
5  I'm the only one here who likes sweet things, and it will mold before I can dispose of it, answered Amy, thinking with a sigh of the generous store she had laid in for such an end as this.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
6  I never knew how good and generous and tender he was till now, for he lets me read his heart, and I find it full of noble impulses and hopes and purposes, and am so proud to know it's mine.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
7  In her first effort at being very, very good, she decided to make her will, as Aunt March had done, so that if she did fall ill and die, her possessions might be justly and generously divided.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINETEEN
8  "Yankees have a trick of being generous to their enemies," said Jo, with a look that made the lad redden, "especially when they beat them," she added, as, leaving Kate's ball untouched, she won the game by a clever stroke.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
9  With the good sense and sturdy independence that characterized him, he refused Mr. Laurence's more generous offers, and accepted the place of bookkeeper, feeling better satisfied to begin with an honestly earned salary than by running any risks with borrowed money.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
10  No one spoke of the great trouble, not even Mrs. March, for all had learned by experience that when Jo was in that mood words were wasted, and the wisest course was to wait till some little accident, or her own generous nature, softened Jo's resentment and healed the breach.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
11  It cost him no effort to be generous, and he would have given Amy all the trinkets in Nice if she would have taken them, but at the same time he felt that he could not change the opinion she was forming of him, and he rather dreaded the keen blue eyes that seemed to watch him with such half-sorrowful, half-scornful surprise.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
12  Mrs. Carrol, Florence's mamma, was ordered to buy, have made, and marked a generous supply of house and table linen, and send it as her present, all of which was faithfully done, but the secret leaked out, and was greatly enjoyed by the family, for Aunt March tried to look utterly unconscious, and insisted that she could give nothing but the old-fashioned pearls long promised to the first bride.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR