1 You may be a little older in years, but I'm ever so much older in feeling, Teddy.
2 As one of the children is older than yourself, you needn't talk so like a grandma.
3 So out came the tarlatan, looking older, limper, and shabbier than ever beside Sallie's crisp new one.
4 Her older sisters were very fine young ladies, and one was engaged, which was extremely interesting and romantic, Meg thought.
5 She was in a sad state when she got home, and when the older girls arrived, some time later, an indignation meeting was held at once.
6 But I lost her when I was a little older than you are, and for years had to struggle on alone, for I was too proud to confess my weakness to anyone else.
7 Mrs. March came home to find the three older girls hard at work in the middle of the afternoon, and a glance at the closet gave her an idea of the success of one part of the experiment.
8 The two older girls were a great deal to one another, but each took one of the younger sisters into her keeping and watched over her in her own way, 'playing mother' they called it, and put their sisters in the places of discarded dolls with the maternal instinct of little women.
9 At the Kings' she daily saw all she wanted, for the children's older sisters were just out, and Meg caught frequent glimpses of dainty ball dresses and bouquets, heard lively gossip about theaters, concerts, sleighing parties, and merrymakings of all kinds, and saw money lavished on trifles which would have been so precious to her.