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1  She ought to have made an effort and tried to love him.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
2  I write a little word to tell you with how much satisfaction I watch your efforts to control your temper.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
3  She was a great favorite with her mates, being good-tempered and possessing the happy art of pleasing without effort.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
4  I had a hard time, Jo, and shed a good many bitter tears over my failures, for in spite of my efforts I never seemed to get on.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
5  She turned scarlet and was on the verge of crying, when she met Laurie's eyes, which would look merry in spite of his heroic efforts.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
6  You ought to make an effort and go visiting everywhere you are asked, then you'll have plenty of friends, and pleasant places to go to.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
7  But in spite of their efforts to be as cheery as larks, the flutelike voices did not seem to chord as well as usual, and all felt out of tune.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
8  Poor Jo tried desperately to be good, but her bosom enemy was always ready to flame up and defeat her, and it took years of patient effort to subdue it.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
9  As that was impossible, she did her best to seem gay, and being rather excited, she succeeded so well that no one dreamed what an effort she was making.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
10  "To hear is to obey, but March is fairer far than May," said little Parker, making a frantic effort to be both witty and tender, and getting promptly quenched by Laurie, who said.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY
11  Though very happy in the social atmosphere about her, and very busy with the daily work that earned her bread and made it sweeter for the effort, Jo still found time for literary labors.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
12  In her first effort at being very, very good, she decided to make her will, as Aunt March had done, so that if she did fall ill and die, her possessions might be justly and generously divided.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINETEEN
13  Laurie made no effort of any kind, but just let himself drift along as comfortably as possible, trying to forget, and feeling that all women owed him a kind word because one had been cold to him.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
14  She did neither, but she remembered the scene, and gave the Professor her heartiest respect, for she knew it cost him an effort to speak out then and there, because his conscience would not let him be silent.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
15  I'm going to have you well and rosy by that time, began Jo, feeling that of all the changes in Beth, the talking change was the greatest, for it seemed to cost no effort now, and she thought aloud in a way quite unlike bashful Beth.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
16  Here she succeeded better, for she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
17  It cost him no effort to be generous, and he would have given Amy all the trinkets in Nice if she would have taken them, but at the same time he felt that he could not change the opinion she was forming of him, and he rather dreaded the keen blue eyes that seemed to watch him with such half-sorrowful, half-scornful surprise.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
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