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1  I can and I will, though I'm not fond of sewing.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
2  It was uninteresting sewing, but tonight no one grumbled.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ONE
3  Jo helps me with the sewing, and insists on doing all sorts of hard jobs.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIXTEEN
4  These words came back to Meg, as she sat sewing in the sunset, especially the last.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
5  Then tea must be got, errands done, and one or two necessary bits of sewing neglected until the last minute.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
6  So she made her wedding gown herself, sewing into it the tender hopes and innocent romances of a girlish heart.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
7  Yesterday was a quiet day spent in teaching, sewing, and writing in my little room, which is very cozy, with a light and fire.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
8  She started when spoken to, blushed when looked at, was very quiet, and sat over her sewing, with a timid, troubled look on her face.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
9  Meg sat upon her cushion, sewing daintily with her white hands, and looking as fresh and sweet as a rose in her pink dress among the green.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
10  Beth was soon able to lie on the study sofa all day, amusing herself with the well-beloved cats at first, and in time with doll's sewing, which had fallen sadly behind-hand.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
11  As the height of luxury, Meg put out some of her sewing, and then found time hang so heavily, that she fell to snipping and spoiling her clothes in her attempts to furbish them up a la Moffat.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
12  On the second Saturday after Jo got out of the window, Meg, as she sat sewing at her window, was scandalized by the sight of Laurie chasing Jo all over the garden and finally capturing her in Amy's bower.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOURTEEN
13  A burnt offering has been made to vanity, this hardened palm has earned something better than blisters, and I'm sure the sewing done by these pricked fingers will last a long time, so much good will went into the stitches.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
14  The parlor windows were closed and curtained, no picture of the pretty wife sewing on the piazza, in white, with a distracting little bow in her hair, or a bright-eyed hostess, smiling a shy welcome as she greeted her guest.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
15  Meg rose as she spoke, and was just going to rehearse the dignified exit, when a step in the hall made her fly into her seat and begin to sew as fast as if her life depended on finishing that particular seam in a given time.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
16  As they sat sewing together, Jo discovered how much improved her sister Meg was, how well she could talk, how much she knew about good, womanly impulses, thoughts, and feelings, how happy she was in husband and children, and how much they were all doing for each other.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
17  Mrs. March glanced at Jo as she spoke, but the face opposite seemed quite unconscious of any secret disquietude but Beth's, and after sewing thoughtfully for a minute, Jo said, "I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them."
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
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