1 "Really, girls, you are both to be blamed," said Meg, beginning to lecture in her elder-sisterly fashion.
2 Then she gave me a long lecture on my sins, and told me to sit and think them over while she just 'lost' herself for a moment.
3 "Any more than it's proper to wear all your bonnets and gowns and ribbons at once, that folks may know you've got them," added Jo, and the lecture ended in a laugh.
4 The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.
5 After supper she undertook the German, and blundered through it, nearly upsetting her partner with her long skirt, and romping in a way that scandalized Laurie, who looked on and meditated a lecture.
6 Aunt March took no notice, but went on with her lecture.
7 "Yes, Mother, I'm sure of that," said Meg, listening respectfully to the little lecture, for the best of women will hold forth upon the all absorbing subject of house keeping.
8 She was just recovering from one of these attacks when she was prevailed upon to escort Miss Crocker to a lecture, and in return for her virtue was rewarded with a new idea.
9 Amy shook her head and opened her sketchbook with an air of resignation, but she had made up her mind to lecture 'that boy' and in a minute she began again.
10 His look and silence, as well as a certain inward self-disapproval, ruffled Amy, and made her resolve to deliver her lecture without delay.
11 But the lecture began to take effect, for there was a wide-awake sparkle in his eyes now and a half-angry, half-injured expression replaced the former indifference.
12 Amy's lecture put the matter in a new light, and for the first time it did look weak and selfish to lose heart at the first failure, and shut himself up in moody indifference.
13 Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward.
14 They ought to have come a little sooner to have heard his lecture on dress, for they were splendidly attired in velvet, silk, and furs.
15 Dickon had stood listening to the lecture, his round eyes shining with curious delight.