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1  Then I'd do what I have often proposed, let Hannah come and help you.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
2  Let's have a sensible game of Authors to refresh our minds, proposed Jo.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
3  It's like a man to propose a bone and vulgar bread and cheese for company.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
4  You know I proposed the cupboard, broke in Snodgrass, who was enjoying the joke amazingly.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TEN
5  "Don't let us do any lessons, Beth, for a while, but play all the time and rest, as the girls mean to," proposed Amy.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
6  But she would have consented if he had proposed to sing a whole opera, and warbled away, blissfully regardless of time and tune.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
7  As the clock struck nine and Jo proposed bed, Meg suddenly left her chair and, taking Beth's stool, leaned her elbows on her mother's knee, saying bravely.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
8  "I suppose it would be profanation to eat anything in this spick-and-span bower, so as I'm tremendously hungry, I propose an adjournment," he added presently.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
9  When they rose she proposed to go, but Laurie said he had something more to show her, and took her away to the conservatory, which had been lighted for her benefit.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
10  She had confessed her sins and been forgiven, but when she showed her savings and proposed a mountain trip, Beth had thanked her heartily, but begged not to go so far away from home.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
11  So I got grandpa to say it was high time we did something, and off I pelted to the office yesterday, for the doctor looked sober, and Hannah most took my head off when I proposed a telegram.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
12  Everybody's health was proposed, from Mr. Laurence, who was considered their special patron, to the astonished guinea pig, who had strayed from its proper sphere in search of its young master.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
13  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
14  As Christmas approached, the usual mysteries began to haunt the house, and Jo frequently convulsed the family by proposing utterly impossible or magnificently absurd ceremonies, in honor of this unusually merry Christmas.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
15  Nobody spoke for a minute; then Meg said in an altered tone, "You know the reason Mother proposed not having any presents this Christmas was because it is going to be a hard winter for everyone; and she thinks we ought not to spend money for pleasure, when our men are suffering so in the army."
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ONE
16  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
17  Evening meditation and morning work somewhat allayed her fears, and having decided that she wouldn't be vain enough to think people were going to propose when she had given them every reason to know what her answer would be, she set forth at the appointed time, hoping Teddy wouldn't do anything to make her hurt his poor feelings.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
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