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1  That's why he has such handsome black eyes and pretty manners, I suppose.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
2  It does seem pleasant to be quiet, and not have company manners on all the time.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
3  I like your nice manners and refined ways of speaking, when you don't try to be elegant.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ONE
4  Meg liked his quiet manners and considered him a walking encyclopedia of useful knowledge.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
5  Only a little, he's old for his age, and tall, and can be quite grown-up in his manners if he likes.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY
6  You don't care to make people like you, to go into good society, and cultivate your manners and tastes.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
7  I like his manners, and he looks like a little gentleman, so I've no objection to your knowing him, if a proper opportunity comes.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWO
8  You laugh at me when I say I want to be a lady, but I mean a true gentlewoman in mind and manners, and I try to do it as far as I know how.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY
9  A regular snow maiden, with blue eyes, and yellow hair curling on her shoulders, pale and slender, and always carrying herself like a young lady mindful of her manners.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ONE
10  With what Meg called 'a great want of manners' Jo had saved some bonbons for the little girls, and they soon subsided, after hearing the most thrilling events of the evening.'
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THREE
11  She had never read Sartor Resartus, but she had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
12  Laurie opened his mouth to ask another question, but remembering just in time that it wasn't manners to make too many inquiries into people's affairs, he shut it again, and looked uncomfortable.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
13  Mr. Davis knew any quantity of Greek, Latin, algebra, and ologies of all sorts so he was called a fine teacher, and manners, morals, feelings, and examples were not considered of any particular importance.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SEVEN
14  The old lady wouldn't speak to them for a time, but happening to meet Jo at a friend's, something in her comical face and blunt manners struck the old lady's fancy, and she proposed to take her for a companion.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
15  Mr. Dashwood was much wider awake than before, which was agreeable, and Mr. Dashwood was not too deeply absorbed in a cigar to remember his manners, so the second interview was much more comfortable than the first.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
16  Money, position, fashionable accomplishments, and elegant manners were most desirable things in her eyes, and she liked to associate with those who possessed them, often mistaking the false for the true, and admiring what was not admirable.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
17  It suited her exactly, and soon she began to imitate the manners and conversation of those about her, to put on little airs and graces, use French phrases, crimp her hair, take in her dresses, and talk about the fashions as well as she could.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
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