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1  The fair, dead Catherine that hung.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
2  He's been starved, and he shan't be baked now he's dead.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
3  Take that Scott up to Mother's, and tell him I'm away, sick, dead, anything.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
4  He said it was dead, and looked at Heinrich and Minna, who have sore throats.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
5  "It's the best we've had yet," said Meg, as the dead villain sat up and rubbed his elbows.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ONE
6  And now having disposed of my most valuable property I hope all will be satisfied and not blame the dead.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINETEEN
7  I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
8  When Laurie came home, dead tired but quite composed, his grandfather met him as if he knew nothing, and kept up the delusion very successfully for an hour or two.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
9  He felt that his blighted affections were quite dead now, and though he should never cease to be a faithful mourner, there was no occasion to wear his weeds ostentatiously.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
10  How graciously Amy criticized the artistic parts of the story, and offered hints for a sequel, which unfortunately couldn't be carried out, as the hero and heroine were dead.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOURTEEN
11  "I have neither, and very few friends to care whether I live or die," said Mr. Brooke rather bitterly as he absently put the dead rose in the hole he had made and covered it up, like a little grave.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
12  Pere la Chaise is very curious, for many of the tombs are like small rooms, and looking in, one sees a table, with images or pictures of the dead, and chairs for the mourners to sit in when they come to lament.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
13  Shadowy effigies in armor stood on either side, a dead silence reigned, the lamp burned blue, and the ghostly figure ever and anon turned its face toward him, showing the glitter of awful eyes through its white veil.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
14  Feeling very much out of sorts herself, Jo hurried into the parlor to find Beth sobbing over Pip, the canary, who lay dead in the cage with his little claws pathetically extended, as if imploring the food for want of which he had died.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
15  Tumbling about in one part of the desk among bills, passports, and business documents of various kinds were several of Jo's letters, and in another compartment were three notes from Amy, carefully tied up with one of her blue ribbons and sweetly suggestive of the little dead roses put away inside.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
16  The pale roses Amy gave him were the sort that the Italians lay in dead hands, never in bridal wreaths, and for a moment he wondered if the omen was for Jo or for himself, but the next instant his American common sense got the better of sentimentality, and he laughed a heartier laugh than Amy had heard since he came.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
17  That night, when Beth played to Mr. Laurence in the twilight, Laurie, standing in the shadow of the curtain, listened to the little David, whose simple music always quieted his moody spirit, and watched the old man, who sat with his gray head on his hand, thinking tender thoughts of the dead child he had loved so much.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
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