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1  You should do just what your grandfather wishes, my dear boy, said Meg in her most maternal tone.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
2  The word 'Mother' suggested other maternal counsels given long ago, and received with unbelieving protests.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
3  "Jo wanted me to come, and tell her how you looked, so I did," answered Laurie, without turning his eyes upon her, though he half smiled at her maternal tone.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
4  Go, dear, I forgot that you have any home but this, and Mrs. March pressed the white hand that wore the wedding ring, as if asking pardon for her maternal covetousness.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
5  As she was a womanly little woman, the maternal instinct was very strong, and she was entirely absorbed in her children, to the utter exclusion of everything and everybody else.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
6  To which pathetic appeal Daisy would answer with a coo, or Demi with a crow, and Meg would put by her lamentations for a maternal revel, which soothed her solitude for the time being.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
7  I flatter myself I'm a 'gentleman growed' as Peggotty said of David, and when you see Amy, you'll find her rather a precocious infant, said Laurie, looking amused at her maternal air.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
8  Amy smiled and was mollified at once, saying with a maternal air, "Women should learn to be agreeable, particularly poor ones, for they have no other way of repaying the kindnesses they receive."
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
9  While making these maternal inquiries Mrs. March got her wet things off, her warm slippers on, and sitting down in the easy chair, drew Amy to her lap, preparing to enjoy the happiest hour of her busy day.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ONE
10  The others sat round the fire, talking away, utterly regardless of the lapse of time, till Meg, whose maternal mind was impressed with a firm conviction that Daisy had tumbled out of bed, and Demi set his nightgown afire studying the structure of matches, made a move to go.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
11  The two older girls were a great deal to one another, but each took one of the younger sisters into her keeping and watched over her in her own way, 'playing mother' they called it, and put their sisters in the places of discarded dolls with the maternal instinct of little women.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR