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1  Amy held her tongue, but used her eyes, and saw Meg slip a fan into her pocket.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
2  "So am I," added Jo, slapping the pocket wherein reposed the long-desired Undine and Sintram.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
3  "Now I'm ready," said Amy, shutting the wardrobe and taking a piece of paper out of her pocket.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINETEEN
4  Next morning Fred showed me one of the crumpled flowers in his vest pocket, and looked very sentimental.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
5  It was a tiny house, with a little garden behind and a lawn about as big as a pocket handkerchief in the front.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
6  Next day she put her pride in her pocket, went to Sallie, told the truth, and asked her to buy the silk as a favor.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
7  He sends all sorts of loving wishes for Christmas, and an especial message to you girls, said Mrs. March, patting her pocket as if she had got a treasure there.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ONE
8  Meg's mild eyes kindled with anger as she pulled a crumpled note from her pocket and threw it at Jo, saying reproachfully, "You wrote it, and that bad boy helped you."
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
9  From this tin receptacle Jo produced another manuscript, and putting both in her pocket, crept quietly downstairs, leaving her friends to nibble on her pens and taste her ink.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOURTEEN
10  Don't take off your apron, whatever you do, it's peculiarly becoming, said Laurie, as Jo bestowed his especial aversion in her capacious pocket and offered her arm to support his feeble steps.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
11  The slippers went on at once, a new handkerchief was slipped into her pocket, well scented with Amy's cologne, the rose was fastened in her bosom, and the nice gloves were pronounced a perfect fit.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWO
12  She never finds herself very soon, so the minute her cap began to bob like a top-heavy dahlia, I whipped the Vicar of Wakefield out of my pocket, and read away, with one eye on him and one on Aunt.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
13  Now, if she had been the heroine of a moral storybook, she ought at this period of her life to have become quite saintly, renounced the world, and gone about doing good in a mortified bonnet, with tracts in her pocket.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
14  Though possessed of half a dozen hats, it took him some time to find one, then there was a hunt for the key, which was at last discovered in his pocket, so that the girls were quite out of sight when he leaped the fence and ran after them.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
15  Mr. Brooke didn't even say, "Thank you," but as he stooped for the unromantic tool, he kissed his little bride behind the folding door, with a look that made Aunt March whisk out her pocket handkerchief with a sudden dew in her sharp old eyes.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
16  Laurie threw back his head, and laughed so heartily at this attack, that the felt hat fell off, and Jo walked on it, which insult only afforded him an opportunity for expatiating on the advantages of a rough-and-ready costume, as he folded up the maltreated hat, and stuffed it into his pocket.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
17  He seemed to have thrown himself back in his chair, tired out, and sat there with his eyes shut till the clock struck two, when he jumped up, put his books in his pocket, as if ready for another lesson, and taking little Tina who had fallen asleep on the sofa in his arms, he carried her quietly away.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
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