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1  I wish I'd known that nice girl.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SEVEN
2  I wish I'd let my hair alone, cried Meg petulantly.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THREE
3  I wish it was Christmas or New Year's all the time.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
4  I just wish, though, instead of peeping, you'd come over and see us.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
5  "I wish I could, and be done with it," said I, trying not to be saucy.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
6  Beth nestled up to her, and whispered softly, "I wish I could send my bunch to Father."
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWO
7  Mother didn't say anything about our money, and she won't wish us to give up everything.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ONE
8  She telegraphed her wish to Meg, but the eyebrows went up so alarmingly that she dared not stir.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THREE
9  I wish you were all going, but as you can't, I shall keep my adventures to tell you when I come back.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
10  So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIX
11  They had a charming time, for The Seven Castles Of The Diamond Lake was as brilliant and wonderful as heart could wish.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
12  Mother doesn't wish you to go this week, because your eyes are not well enough yet to bear the light of this fairy piece.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
13  "I just wish I had a little of the money Laurie spends on that horse," she added, as if to herself, yet hoping her sisters would hear.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SEVEN
14  "I wish I was going to have a fine time and wear all these nice things," said Amy with her mouth full of pins, as she artistically replenished her sister's cushion.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
15  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.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
16  A cluster of tea-rose buds at the bosom, and a ruche, reconciled Meg to the display of her pretty, white shoulders, and a pair of high-heeled silk boots satisfied the last wish of her heart.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
17  Amy was much offended that her overtures of peace had been repulsed, and began to wish she had not humbled herself, to feel more injured than ever, and to plume herself on her superior virtue in a way which was particularly exasperating.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
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