1 A trifle, perhaps, she's such a captivating little woman I can't help being proud of her.
2 I shouldn't have come over if I could have helped it, but I can't get on without my little woman any more than a.
3 Presently he sat down beside her, and said, in his most wheedlesome tone, "Now be a sensible little woman, and do as they say."
4 Her paradise was not a tranquil one, for the little woman fussed, was over-anxious to please, and bustled about like a true Martha, cumbered with many cares.
5 As she was a womanly little woman, the maternal instinct was very strong, and she was entirely absorbed in her children, to the utter exclusion of everything and everybody else.
6 Sallie was very kind, and often offered her the coveted trifles, but Meg declined them, knowing that John wouldn't like it, and then this foolish little woman went and did what John disliked even worse.
7 "I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else," said Jo, thinking that keeping her temper at home was a much harder task than facing a rebel or two down South.