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1  Sweet voices and rich melody filled the air, and so.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TEN
2  It's perfectly maddening to think of those lovely limes, sighed Amy, with the air of a martyr.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEVEN
3  You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
4  It's a dull day, but the air isn't bad, and I'm going to take Brooke home, so it will be gay inside, if it isn't out.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIFTEEN
5  "I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen," observed Jo mysteriously.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
6  Mr. Bhaer sat looking about him with the air of a traveler who knocks at a strange door, and when it opens, finds himself at home.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
7  Mercifully unconscious of what she had done, Jo sat with her nose in the air, and a revolutionary aspect which was anything but inviting.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
8  There is so much to do about the play for Christmas night, said Jo, marching up and down, with her hands behind her back, and her nose in the air.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ONE
9  "You are a thing of beauty and a joy forever," said Jo, looking through her hand with the air of a connoisseur at the blue feather against the golden hair.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
10  Jo laughed, and Meg sharply ordered her not to talk, then amiably promised to make her hair curl, and fell asleep to dream of living in her castle in the air.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIFTEEN
11  Poor Mr. Brooke looked as if his lovely castle in the air was tumbling about his ears, for he had never seen Meg in such a mood before, and it rather bewildered him.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
12  A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes, said her mother, with the air of one who had learned the difference between preaching and practicing.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY
13  Hold me up, Jo, for upon my life it's one too many for me, returned Laurie, regarding the infants with the air of a big, benevolent Newfoundland looking at a pair of infantile kittens.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
14  He ran, he flew, he pranced, his face glowed, his bald head shown, his coattails waved wildly, his pumps actually twinkled in the air, and when the music stopped, he wiped the drops from his brow, and beamed upon his fellow men like a French Pickwick without glasses.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
15  Then she could not endure the dog, a fat, cross beast who snarled and yelped at her when she made his toilet, and who lay on his back with all his legs in the air and a most idiotic expression of countenance when he wanted something to eat, which was about a dozen times a day.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINETEEN
16  The dream of filling home with comforts, giving Beth everything she wanted, from strawberries in winter to an organ in her bedroom, going abroad herself, and always having more than enough, so that she might indulge in the luxury of charity, had been for years Jo's most cherished castle in the air.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
17  Prone upon the floor lay Mr. March, with his respectable legs in the air, and beside him, likewise prone, was Demi, trying to imitate the attitude with his own short, scarlet-stockinged legs, both grovelers so seriously absorbed that they were unconscious of spectators, till Mr. Bhaer laughed his sonorous laugh, and Jo cried out, with a scandalized face.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
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