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1  I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
2  "You never shall be again," broke in Laurie, putting his arm about her, as if to fence out every human ill.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
3  The more you love and trust Him, the nearer you will feel to Him, and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
4  Her small virtues were so sweet that she would have been quite angelic if a few small naughtinesses had not kept her delightfully human.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
5  Then they both stopped rowing, and unconsciously added a pretty little tableau of human love and happiness to the dissolving views reflected in the lake.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
6  All quiet, curtains down at the lower windows, servants out of sight, and nothing human visible but a curly black head leaning on a thin hand at the upper window.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
7  Amy hastily shook out half a dozen and laid the rest down before Mr. Davis, feeling that any man possessing a human heart would relent when that delicious perfume met his nose.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SEVEN
8  But someone did come and help her, though Jo did not recognize her good angels at once because they wore familiar shapes and used the simple spells best fitted to poor humanity.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
9  But, you see, Jo wasn't a heroine, she was only a struggling human girl like hundreds of others, and she just acted out her nature, being sad, cross, listless, or energetic, as the mood suggested.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
10  Boys are trying enough to human patience, goodness knows, but girls are infinitely more so, especially to nervous gentlemen with tyrannical tempers and no more talent for teaching than Dr. Blimber.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SEVEN
11  Beth had her troubles as well as the others, and not being an angel but a very human little girl, she often 'wept a little weep' as Jo said, because she couldn't take music lessons and have a fine piano.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
12  It was dreadful, but she would have done it if the flock of draggle-tailed sparrows on the hedge had been human beings, for she was very far gone indeed, and quite regardless of everything but her own happiness.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
13  John was a mild man, but he was human, and after a long day's work to come home tired, hungry, and hopeful, to find a chaotic house, an empty table, and a cross wife was not exactly conducive to repose of mind or manner.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
14  She did not rebuke Jo with saintly speeches, only loved her better for her passionate affection, and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
15  Little they cared what anybody thought, for they were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
16  I don't know whether the study of Shakespeare helped her to read character, or the natural instinct of a woman for what was honest, brave, and strong, but while endowing her imaginary heroes with every perfection under the sun, Jo was discovering a live hero, who interested her in spite of many human imperfections.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR