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1  "I can't sleep, I'm so anxious," said Meg.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FIFTEEN
2  Keep the house quiet, let her sleep, and when she wakes, give her.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
3  Go to bed and don't talk, for we must be up early and shall need all the sleep we can get.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FIFTEEN
4  I read every morning, try to be good all day, and sing myself to sleep with Father's tune.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIXTEEN
5  Aunt was tired and went to sleep, but Uncle read his guidebook, and wouldn't be astonished at anything.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
6  "It must be very disagreeable to sleep in a tent, and eat all sorts of bad-tasting things, and drink out of a tin mug," sighed Amy.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ONE
7  Then she slept again, and the girls waited upon their mother, for she would not unclasp the thin hand which clung to hers even in sleep.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY
8  How blithely she sang that evening, and how they all laughed at her because she woke Amy in the night by playing the piano on her face in her sleep.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIX
9  Amy stirred and sighed in her sleep, and as if eager to begin at once to mend her fault, Jo looked up with an expression on her face which it had never worn before.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
10  The girls never forgot that night, for no sleep came to them as they kept their watch, with that dreadful sense of powerlessness which comes to us in hours like those.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
11  But soon even these intervals of consciousness ended, and she lay hour after hour, tossing to and fro, with incoherent words on her lips, or sank into a heavy sleep which brought her no refreshment.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
12  Down went the highest pair of heels, up rose the smokiest gentleman, and carefully cherishing his cigar between his fingers, he advanced with a nod and a countenance expressive of nothing but sleep.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
13  It was dreadful, and the worst of it was John went on so quietly afterward, just as if nothing had happened, except that he stayed in town later, and worked at night when she had gone to cry herself to sleep.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
14  She would very gladly have gone out to enjoy the bright wintry weather, but discovering that Laurie was dropping with sleep in spite of manful efforts to conceal the fact, she persuaded him to rest on the sofa, while she wrote a note to her mother.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY
15  The evenings were the worst of all, for Aunt March fell to telling long stories about her youth, which were so unutterably dull that Amy was always ready to go to bed, intending to cry over her hard fate, but usually going to sleep before she had squeezed out more than a tear or two.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINETEEN
16  As if awaked by the stir, Hannah started out of her sleep, hurried to the bed, looked at Beth, felt her hands, listened at her lips, and then, throwing her apron over her head, sat down to rock to and fro, exclaiming, under her breath, "The fever's turned, she's sleepin nat'ral, her skin's damp, and she breathes easy."
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
17  Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe, so I will leave it to the imagination of my readers, merely saying that the house was full of genuine happiness, and that Meg's tender hope was realized, for when Beth woke from that long, healing sleep, the first objects on which her eyes fell were the little rose and Mother's face.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY
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