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1  Meg's had roses and heliotrope, myrtle, and a little orange tree in it.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TEN
2  But Beth's roses are sweeter to me, said Mrs. March, smelling the half-dead posy in her belt.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWO
3  So Laurie played and Jo listened, with her nose luxuriously buried in heliotrope and tea roses.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
4  Valrosa well deserved its name, for in that climate of perpetual summer roses blossomed everywhere.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
5  Before she could speak, Annie had the cover off, and all were exclaiming at the lovely roses, heath, and fern within.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
6  A soft strain of music sounded, and then at the back of the cave appeared a little figure in cloudy white, with glittering wings, golden hair, and a garland of roses on its head.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWO
7  The June roses over the porch were awake bright and early on that morning, rejoicing with all their hearts in the cloudless sunshine, like friendly little neighbors, as they were.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
8  As twilight fell, dewy and still, one by one they gathered on the porch where the June roses were budding beautifully, and each groaned or sighed as she sat down, as if tired or troubled.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
9  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
10  At Avigdor's she found the precious home letters and, giving the reins to Laurie, read them luxuriously as they wound up the shady road between green hedges, where tea roses bloomed as freshly as in June.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
11  This phantom wore many faces, but it always had golden hair, was enveloped in a diaphanous cloud, and floated airily before his mind's eye in a pleasing chaos of roses, peacocks, white ponies, and blue ribbons.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
12  Not a very splendid show, but there was a great deal of love done up in the few little bundles, and the tall vase of red roses, white chrysanthemums, and trailing vines, which stood in the middle, gave quite an elegant air to the table.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWO
13  Every shadowy nook, where seats invited one to stop and rest, was a mass of bloom, every cool grotto had its marble nymph smiling from a veil of flowers and every fountain reflected crimson, white, or pale pink roses, leaning down to smile at their own beauty.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
14  It was a comfortable room, though the carpet was faded and the furniture very plain, for a good picture or two hung on the walls, books filled the recesses, chrysanthemums and Christmas roses bloomed in the windows, and a pleasant atmosphere of home peace pervaded it.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ONE
15  Somehow the kind act finished her despondency, and when all the rest went to show themselves to Mrs. Moffat, she saw a happy, bright-eyed face in the mirror, as she laid her ferns against her rippling hair and fastened the roses in the dress that didn't strike her as so very shabby now.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
16  Tumbling about in one part of the desk among bills, passports, and business documents of various kinds were several of Jo's letters, and in another compartment were three notes from Amy, carefully tied up with one of her blue ribbons and sweetly suggestive of the little dead roses put away inside.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
17  The pale roses Amy gave him were the sort that the Italians lay in dead hands, never in bridal wreaths, and for a moment he wondered if the omen was for Jo or for himself, but the next instant his American common sense got the better of sentimentality, and he laughed a heartier laugh than Amy had heard since he came.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
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