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1  Just be a simple, honest, respectable boy, and we'll never desert you.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOURTEEN
2  His second wooing, he resolved, should be as calm and simple as possible.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
3  It's simple, but handsome, and those folds over the arm are really artistic.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
4  It's so simple you can eat it, and being soft, it will slip down without hurting your sore throat.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
5  They looked very well in their simple suits, Meg's in silvery drab, with a blue velvet snood, lace frills, and the pearl pin.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THREE
6  The Moffats were very fashionable, and simple Meg was rather daunted, at first, by the splendor of the house and the elegance of its occupants.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
7  Then she wrote a short, simple note, and with Laurie's help, got them smuggled onto the study table one morning before the old gentleman was up.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIX
8  Mr. Bhaer, in one of their conversations, had advised her to study simple, true, and lovely characters, wherever she found them, as good training for a writer.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
9  But someone did come and help her, though Jo did not recognize her good angels at once because they wore familiar shapes and used the simple spells best fitted to poor humanity.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
10  No one but Beth could get much music out of the old piano, but she had a way of softly touching the yellow keys and making a pleasant accompaniment to the simple songs they sang.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ONE
11  I'm sure it's the least I can do when you have been so kind, lending me things and helping me get ready, said Meg, glancing round the room at the very simple outfit, which seemed nearly perfect in their eyes.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
12  There was a good deal of laughing and kissing and explaining, in the simple, loving fashion which makes these home festivals so pleasant at the time, so sweet to remember long afterward, and then all fell to work.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWO
13  As the younger girls stand together, giving the last touches to their simple toilet, it may be a good time to tell of a few changes which three years have wrought in their appearance, for all are looking their best just now.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
14  Tarlatan and tulle were cheap at Nice, so she enveloped herself in them on such occasions, and following the sensible English fashion of simple dress for young girls, got up charming little toilettes with fresh flowers, a few trinkets, and all manner of dainty devices, which were both inexpensive and effective.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
15  That night, when Beth played to Mr. Laurence in the twilight, Laurie, standing in the shadow of the curtain, listened to the little David, whose simple music always quieted his moody spirit, and watched the old man, who sat with his gray head on his hand, thinking tender thoughts of the dead child he had loved so much.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
16  There were no marble-topped tables, long mirrors, or lace curtains in the little parlor, but simple furniture, plenty of books, a fine picture or two, a stand of flowers in the bay window, and, scattered all about, the pretty gifts which came from friendly hands and were the fairer for the loving messages they brought.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
17  Her faith in her mother was a little shaken by the worldly plans attributed to her by Mrs. Moffat, who judged others by herself, and the sensible resolution to be contented with the simple wardrobe which suited a poor man's daughter was weakened by the unnecessary pity of girls who thought a shabby dress one of the greatest calamities under heaven.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
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