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1  Dickon took his spade and dug the hole deeper and wider than a new digger with thin white hands could make it.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
2  He showed her how to use the fork while he dug about roots with the spade and stirred the earth and let the air in.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  Already nearly all the weeds were cleared out of the garden and most of the roses and trees had been pruned or dug about.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  She worked and dug and pulled up weeds steadily, only becoming more pleased with her work every hour instead of tiring of it.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
5  She went from place to place, and dug and weeded, and enjoyed herself so immensely that she was led on from bed to bed and into the grass under the trees.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  While he dug or weeded he whistled or sang bits of Yorkshire moor songs or talked to Soot or Captain or the brothers and sisters he had taught to help him.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  She searched about until she found a rather sharp piece of wood and knelt down and dug and weeded out the weeds and grass until she made nice little clear places around them.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  They put their eager young noses close to the earth and sniffed its warmed springtime breathing; they dug and pulled and laughed low with rapture until Mistress Mary's hair was as tumbled as Dickon's and her cheeks were almost as poppy red as his.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV