1 I'd go myself, if I was any use.
2 But the piano suffers for want of use.
3 Never till I'm stiff and old and have to use a crutch.
4 , and I don't want anyone to use these but Marmee, said Beth, looking troubled.
5 It's proper to use good words, and improve your vocabilary, returned Amy, with dignity.
6 The note was written in the terms which one gentleman would use to another after offering some deep insult.
7 Of course not, but I don't see the use of your having seventeen waistcoats, endless neckties, and a new hat every time you come home.
8 So she asked what she should use for new heads, since the old ones were lost, and all the geese opened their hundred mouths and screamed.
9 "Don't use such dreadful expressions," replied Meg from the depths of the veil in which she had shrouded herself like a nun sick of the world.
10 For the fun of it we bring our things in these bags, wear the old hats, use poles to climb the hill, and play pilgrims, as we used to do years ago.
11 It was one of the kind artists use to hold the paper on their drawing boards, therefore quite appropriate and effective for the purpose it was now being put.
12 Esther had given her a rosary of black beads with a silver cross, but Amy hung it up and did not use it, feeling doubtful as to its fitness for Protestant prayers.
13 Amy especially enjoyed this high honor, and became quite a belle among them, for her ladyship early felt and learned to use the gift of fascination with which she was endowed.
14 I wish I hadn't smashed my coral bracelet, for you might have had it, said Jo, who loved to give and lend, but whose possessions were usually too dilapidated to be of much use.
15 At that minute Jo was particularly absorbed in dressmaking, for she was mantua-maker general to the family, and took especial credit to herself because she could use a needle as well as a pen.
16 As John firmly believed that 'my wife' was equal to anything, and took a natural pride in her skill, he resolved that she should be gratified, and their only crop of fruit laid by in a most pleasing form for winter use.
17 It suited her exactly, and soon she began to imitate the manners and conversation of those about her, to put on little airs and graces, use French phrases, crimp her hair, take in her dresses, and talk about the fashions as well as she could.
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