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  • And Little Men was there, but not Little Women or Jo's Boys.†   (source)
  • She told them the plot of Little Women in ten minutes, a miracle of compression, especially since her book report had been seven typed pages.†   (source)
  • When Matt called her Jo, it reminded her of Little Women, and although she was pretty sure Matt had never read the Alcott novel, secretly she was pleased to be associated with a character so strong and sure of herself.†   (source)
  • He had given Deets one of the little women figures he whittled--Deets was very proud of it, and kept it in the pocket of his old chaps.†   (source)
  • I feel like Jo March!" and I'd known exactly what she meant, because she'd forced me to read Little Women weeks earlier, even though it was a girl's book.†   (source)
  • Then, in the same note: "Butterfly is the most irresistibly appealing of Puccini's 'Little Women.'†   (source)
  • I wonder if I slept with a peg on my nose, like Amy in Little Women, if it would make it smaller?†   (source)
  • And all four had tears running down their cheeks when Beth died in Little Women.†   (source)
  • He might sing to them in his throaty voice, but he was a man of mystery, a strange man, walking all day behind the wagon, and at night whittling his little women.†   (source)
  • "Little Women," and "Heidi," a beautiful little story which I afterward read in German.†   (source)
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  • "Little Women" (twice), "The Common Law,"†   (source)
  • I loved "Little Women" because it gave me a sense of kinship with girls and boys who could see and hear.†   (source)
  • Little Women — Louisa May Alcott CHAPTER ONE PLAYING PILGRIMS "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.†   (source)
  • Whether it ever rises again, depends upon the reception given the first act of the domestic drama called Little Women.†   (source)
  • When they're all married to scraggy little women like hens and have cretinous porcine sons like themselves getting drunk at the same club dinner in the same colored coats, they'll still say, when my name is mentioned, 'We put him in Mercury one night,' and their barnyard daughters will snigger and think their father was quite a dog in his day, and what a pity he's grown so dull.†   (source)
  • She was one of those obscure mouse-like little women who admire big men.†   (source)
  • One of the brightest little women I've met these many moons.†   (source)
  • "Spoken like the best of little women!" cried Richard gaily.†   (source)
  • LITTLE WOMEN PART 2 In order that we may start afresh and go to Meg's wedding….†   (source)
  • At the Outing we've got a bunch of real human fellows, and the finest lot of little women in town—just as good at joshing as the men—but at the Tonawanda there's nothing but these would-be's in New York get-ups, drinking tea!†   (source)
  • CHAPTER VIII I THE great events of Babbitt's spring were the secret buying of real-estate options in Linton for certain street-traction officials, before the public announcement that the Linton Avenue Car Line would be extended, and a dinner which was, as he rejoiced to his wife, not only "a regular society spread but a real sure-enough highbrow affair, with some of the keenest intellects and the brightest bunch of little women in town."†   (source)
  • Annie Moffat's foolish lessons in coquetry came into her mind, and the love of power, which sleeps in the bosoms of the best of little women, woke up all of a sudden and took possession of her.†   (source)
  • The two older girls were a great deal to one another, but each took one of the younger sisters into her keeping and watched over her in her own way, 'playing mother' they called it, and put their sisters in the places of discarded dolls with the maternal instinct of little women.†   (source)
  • I know they will remember all I said to them, that they will be loving children to you, will do their duty faithfully, fight their bosom enemies bravely, and conquer themselves so beautifully that when I come back to them I may be fonder and prouder than ever of my little women.†   (source)
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