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1  with salt and butter, for dinner.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TEN
2  By the time she got cleared up, the dinner arrived and the stove was red-hot.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
3  I'm going out to dinner and can't worry about things at home, said Mrs. March, when Jo spoke to her.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
4  So did everyone else, even 'Croaker' as the girls called the old lady, and the unfortunate dinner ended gaily, with bread and butter, olives and fun.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
5  Jo, with perfect faith in her own powers and a friendly desire to make up the quarrel, immediately put a note in the office, inviting Laurie to dinner.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
6  After dinner, she had to read aloud, and sit still while the old lady slept, which she usually did for an hour, as she dropped off over the first page.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINETEEN
7  Language cannot describe the anxieties, experiences, and exertions which Jo underwent that morning, and the dinner she served up became a standing joke.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
8  "I saw something I liked this morning, and I meant to tell it at dinner, but I forgot," said Beth, putting Jo's topsy-turvy basket in order as she talked.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
9  She stayed till Hannah came to take her home to dinner, but she had no appetite, and could only sit and smile upon everyone in a general state of beatitude.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIX
10  Make the shroud, and lay him in my box, and after the dinner party, we'll have a nice little funeral, said Jo, beginning to feel as if she had undertaken a good deal.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
11  "Never mind, I'll get the dinner and be servant, you be mistress, keep your hands nice, see company, and give orders," said Jo, who knew still less than Meg about culinary affairs.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
12  A strange sense of helplessness fell upon the girls as the gray bonnet vanished round the corner, and despair seized them when a few minutes later Miss Crocker appeared, and said she'd come to dinner.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
13  That's a useful accomplishment, which no woman should be without, said Mrs. March, laughing inaudibly at the recollection of Jo's dinner party, for she had met Miss Crocker and heard her account of it.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
14  A poor woman came in with a pail and a mop, and asked Mr. Cutter if he would let her do some scrubbing for a bit of fish, because she hadn't any dinner for her children, and had been disappointed of a day's work.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
15  "I haven't strength of mind enough to clear up now, so we will sober ourselves with a funeral," said Jo, as they rose, and Miss Crocker made ready to go, being eager to tell the new story at another friend's dinner table.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
16  Laurie dug a grave under the ferns in the grove, little Pip was laid in, with many tears by his tender-hearted mistress, and covered with moss, while a wreath of violets and chickweed was hung on the stone which bore his epitaph, composed by Jo while she struggled with the dinner.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
17  Meg bathed the insulted hand with glycerine and tears, Beth felt that even her beloved kittens would fail as a balm for griefs like this, Jo wrathfully proposed that Mr. Davis be arrested without delay, and Hannah shook her fist at the 'villain' and pounded potatoes for dinner as if she had him under her pestle.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SEVEN
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