I have a bad trick of standing before the fire, and so I burn my ____s, and I scorched this one
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"Jo! Jo! where are you?" cried Meg, at the foot of the ____ stairs.
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"Serves me right for trying to be fine. I wish I'd let my hair alone," cried Meg ____.
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She got through her lessons as well as she could, and managed to escape reprimands by being a model of ____.
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She hadn't heart enough even to make herself pretty, as usual, by putting on a blue neck-ribbon, and dressing her hair in the most ____ way.
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"So do I, it was so smooth and pretty. But it will soon grow out again," said Beth, coming to kiss and comfort the ____ sheep.
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It was on the tip of Jo's tongue to ask; but she checked herself in time, and, with unusual ____, tried to find out in a roundabout way.
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This did not suit Jo at all; but she accepted the place since nothing better appeared, and, to every one's surprise, got on remarkably well with her ____ relative.
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She had a ____ way of saying, "When papa was rich we did so-and-so," which was very touching.