1 Dickon and my cousin have worked and made it come alive.
2 It seemed like a thing alive and yet its tiny voice made the stillness seem deeper.
3 She wondered what it would look like and whether there were any flowers still alive in it.
4 If there was no one else alive in the hundred rooms there were seven mice who did not look lonely at all.
5 If he did not come back until winter, or even autumn, there would be time to watch the secret garden come alive.
6 Mr. Craven lets him do what he likes because he was here when Mrs. Craven was alive, an he used to make her laugh.
7 She had begun to wonder why she had never seemed to belong to anyone even when her father and mother had been alive.
8 In all her wanderings through the long corridors and the empty rooms, she had seen nothing alive; but in this room she saw something.
9 If the garden was a secret and we could get into it we could watch the things grow bigger every day, and see how many roses are alive.
10 Susan Sowerby went round their garden with them and was told the whole story of it and shown every bush and tree which had come alive.
11 The sun could get at them and warm them, and when the rain came down it could reach them at once, so they began to feel very much alive.
12 All the ground was covered with grass of a wintry brown and out of it grew clumps of bushes which were surely rosebushes if they were alive.
13 The noise and hurrying about and wailing over the cholera had frightened her, and she had been angry because no one seemed to remember that she was alive.
14 If she had been Ben Weatherstaff she could have told whether the wood was alive by looking at it, but she could only see that there were only gray or brown sprays and branches and none showed any signs of even a tiny leaf-bud anywhere.
15 While the secret garden was coming alive and two children were coming alive with it, there was a man wandering about certain far-away beautiful places in the Norwegian fiords and the valleys and mountains of Switzerland and he was a man who for ten years had kept his mind filled with dark and heart-broken thinking.
16 There were neither leaves nor roses on them now and Mary did not know whether they were dead or alive, but their thin gray or brown branches and sprays looked like a sort of hazy mantle spreading over everything, walls, and trees, and even brown grass, where they had fallen from their fastenings and run along the ground.
17 When her mind gradually filled itself with robins, and moorland cottages crowded with children, with queer crabbed old gardeners and common little Yorkshire housemaids, with springtime and with secret gardens coming alive day by day, and also with a moor boy and his "creatures," there was no room left for the disagreeable thoughts which affected her liver and her digestion and made her yellow and tired.
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