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1  I can and I will, though I'm not fond of sewing.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
2  It was uninteresting sewing, but tonight no one grumbled.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ONE
3  Jo helps me with the sewing, and insists on doing all sorts of hard jobs.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIXTEEN
4  You know Mrs. Kirke wrote to you for some respectable young person to teach her children and sew.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
5  All were busy at home, John absent till night, and nothing to do but sew, or read, or potter about.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
6  Then tea must be got, errands done, and one or two necessary bits of sewing neglected until the last minute.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
7  So she made her wedding gown herself, sewing into it the tender hopes and innocent romances of a girlish heart.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
8  She started when spoken to, blushed when looked at, was very quiet, and sat over her sewing, with a timid, troubled look on her face.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
9  Meg sat upon her cushion, sewing daintily with her white hands, and looking as fresh and sweet as a rose in her pink dress among the green.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
10  Beth was soon able to lie on the study sofa all day, amusing herself with the well-beloved cats at first, and in time with doll's sewing, which had fallen sadly behind-hand.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
11  As the height of luxury, Meg put out some of her sewing, and then found time hang so heavily, that she fell to snipping and spoiling her clothes in her attempts to furbish them up a la Moffat.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
12  On the second Saturday after Jo got out of the window, Meg, as she sat sewing at her window, was scandalized by the sight of Laurie chasing Jo all over the garden and finally capturing her in Amy's bower.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOURTEEN
13  A burnt offering has been made to vanity, this hardened palm has earned something better than blisters, and I'm sure the sewing done by these pricked fingers will last a long time, so much good will went into the stitches.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
14  Meg rose as she spoke, and was just going to rehearse the dignified exit, when a step in the hall made her fly into her seat and begin to sew as fast as if her life depended on finishing that particular seam in a given time.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
15  The parlor windows were closed and curtained, no picture of the pretty wife sewing on the piazza, in white, with a distracting little bow in her hair, or a bright-eyed hostess, smiling a shy welcome as she greeted her guest.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
16  As for buttons, she soon learned to wonder where they went, to shake her head over the carelessness of men, and to threaten to make him sew them on himself, and see if his work would stand impatient and clumsy fingers any better than hers.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
17  The nursery, where I am to teach and sew, is a pleasant room next Mrs. Kirke's private parlor, and the two little girls are pretty children, rather spoiled, I fancy, but they took to me after telling them The Seven Bad Pigs, and I've no doubt I shall make a model governess.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
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