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1  It's no worse than hidin where a bird's nest is.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
2  "He knows all about eggs and nests," Mary went on.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  Her garden was her nest and she was like a missel thrush.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  Then she saw it was meant for a nest with a bird sitting on it.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  She would never again feel like a missel thrush with a safe-hidden nest.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  He felt as if he were being led to look at some strange bird's nest and must move softly.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
7  The old ones turn em out o their nest an make em fly an they're scattered before you know it.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  The bright eyes belonged to a little gray mouse, and the mouse had eaten a hole into the cushion and made a comfortable nest there.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  In the robin's nest there were Eggs and the robin's mate sat upon them keeping them warm with her feathery little breast and careful wings.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
10  When the boy was walking and running about and digging and weeding like the others, the nest in the corner was brooded over by a great peace and content.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
11  Thousands of lovely things grow on it and there are thousands of little creatures all busy building nests and making holes and burrows and chippering or singing or squeaking to each other.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
12  She felt as if she had been on a long journey, and at any rate she had had something to amuse her all the time, and she had played with the ivory elephants and had seen the gray mouse and its babies in their nest in the velvet cushion.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  And there are flowers uncurling and buds on everything and the green veil has covered nearly all the gray and the birds are in such a hurry about their nests for fear they may be too late that some of them are even fighting for places in the secret garden.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
14  The things he had to tell about otters' and badgers' and water-rats' houses, not to mention birds' nests and field-mice and their burrows, were enough to make you almost tremble with excitement when you heard all the intimate details from an animal charmer and realized with what thrilling eagerness and anxiety the whole busy underworld was working.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX