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1  So Laurie played and Jo listened, with her nose luxuriously buried in heliotrope and tea roses.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
2  You're a blighted being, and decidedly cross today because you can't sit in the lap of luxury all the time.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
3  You hate hard work, and you'll marry some rich man, and come home to sit in the lap of luxury all your days, said Jo.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY
4  Hannah hated rain as much as a cat does so she made no trouble, and they rolled away in the luxurious close carriage, feeling very festive and elegant.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THREE
5  With that he heaved a great sigh, and then, as if he had discharged his duty to the past, put his feet up on the sofa and enjoyed Amy's letter luxuriously.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
6  She was sick all the next day, and on Saturday went home, quite used up with her fortnight's fun and feeling that she had 'sat in the lap of luxury' long enough.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER NINE
7  Laurie lay luxuriously swinging to and fro in his hammock one warm September afternoon, wondering what his neighbors were about, but too lazy to go and find out.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
8  I understand, Mother, and quite agree, but I'm disappointed about Meg, for I'd planned to have her marry Teddy by-and-by and sit in the lap of luxury all her days.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY
9  It's like other people, you know, and I always envy girls who do such things, I'm so fond of luxury, said Meg, trying to decide which of two shabby gowns was the least shabby.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
10  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
11  At Avigdor's she found the precious home letters and, giving the reins to Laurie, read them luxuriously as they wound up the shady road between green hedges, where tea roses bloomed as freshly as in June.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
12  On the other side was a stately stone mansion, plainly betokening every sort of comfort and luxury, from the big coach house and well-kept grounds to the conservatory and the glimpses of lovely things one caught between the rich curtains.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
13  The dream of filling home with comforts, giving Beth everything she wanted, from strawberries in winter to an organ in her bedroom, going abroad herself, and always having more than enough, so that she might indulge in the luxury of charity, had been for years Jo's most cherished castle in the air.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR