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1  I don't mean to act any more after this time.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ONE
2  I didn't mean to preach or tell tales or be silly.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
3  I mean is a man named Winkle who makes trouble in his.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TEN
4  I know what I mean, and you needn't be statirical about it.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ONE
5  We read some, and mean to every day, they all cried in chorus.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWO
6  I mean to know him some day, for he needs fun, I'm sure he does, said Jo decidedly.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWO
7  I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all some day.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
8  I don't mean to plague you and will bear it like a man, but I do wish it was all settled.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
9  I mean it kindly, and don't want you to spoil your whole life by making a mistake at the beginning.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
10  I hate to wait, so if you mean ever to do it, make haste and have it over quickly, said Jo pettishly.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
11  Why, you see, the girls are always buying them, and unless you want to be thought mean, you must do it too.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SEVEN
12  "If you mean libel, I'd say so, and not talk about labels, as if Papa was a pickle bottle," advised Jo, laughing.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ONE
13  "Don't let us do any lessons, Beth, for a while, but play all the time and rest, as the girls mean to," proposed Amy.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
14  Yes, Mother, and when I go home I mean to have a corner in the big closet to put my books and the copy of that picture which I've tried to make.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY
15  "I like good strong words that mean something," replied Jo, catching her hat as it took a leap off her head preparatory to flying away altogether.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
16  "I didn't mean to, but you looked so funny I really couldn't help it," replied Meg, passing over the first part of his reproach, for it was quite true that she had shunned him, remembering the Moffat party and the talk after it.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
17  "Yes, I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked," answered Mrs. March with a sigh and a smile, as she smoothed and fastened up Jo's disheveled hair.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
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