1 I'll work and pray and fight against it.
2 You do try to fight off your shyness, and I love you for it.
3 And it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa.
4 She didn't say "perhaps never," but each silently added it, thinking of Father far away, where the fighting was.
5 He had a hard fight, for the wise men argued well, but he didn't know when he was beaten and stood to his colors like a man.
6 "What fun it was, especially going by the lions, fighting Apollyon, and passing through the valley where the hob-goblins were," said Jo.
7 Meg flew to rescue Amy, and Beth to pacify Jo, but Jo was quite beside herself, and with a parting box on her sister's ear, she rushed out of the room up to the old sofa in the garret, and finished her fight alone.
8 They had a long talk that night, and Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seemed to have made a man of him, given him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.