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1  I've got the key to mine, but I'm not allowed to try it.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
2  "I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen," observed Jo mysteriously.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
3  Nobody did, however, and nobody saw Beth wipe the tears off the yellow keys, that wouldn't keep in tune, when she was all alone.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
4  Letters, manuscripts, books, and bundles can be passed in there, and as each nation has a key, it will be uncommonly nice, I fancy.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TEN
5  A key is thrown in, which unlocks the door, and in a spasm of rapture he tears off his chains and rushes away to find and rescue his lady love.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWO
6  Great applause as Mr. Weller deposited a little key on the table and subsided, the warming pan clashed and waved wildly, and it was some time before order could be restored.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TEN
7  No one but Beth could get much music out of the old piano, but she had a way of softly touching the yellow keys and making a pleasant accompaniment to the simple songs they sang.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER ONE
8  So, sitting at the dear little piano, Beth softly touched the keys, and in the sweet voice they had never thought to hear again, sang to her own accompaniment the quaint hymn, which was a singularly fitting song for her.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
9  Though possessed of half a dozen hats, it took him some time to find one, then there was a hunt for the key, which was at last discovered in his pocket, so that the girls were quite out of sight when he leaped the fence and ran after them.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
10  It had evidently been newly tuned and put in apple-pie order, but, perfect as it was, I think the real charm lay in the happiest of all happy faces which leaned over it, as Beth lovingly touched the beautiful black and white keys and pressed the bright pedals.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SIX
11  This household happiness did not come all at once, but John and Meg had found the key to it, and each year of married life taught them how to use it, unlocking the treasuries of real home love and mutual helpfulness, which the poorest may possess, and the richest cannot buy.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT