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1  When first we got in here," he said, "it seemed like everything was gray.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
2  The rainstorm had ended and the gray mist and clouds had been swept away in the night by the wind.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  This here's a new bit, and he touched a shoot which looked brownish green instead of hard, dry gray.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  They were agate gray and they looked too big for his face because they had black lashes all round them.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  He stopped and looked round at the lovely gray tangle about him, and his round eyes looked queerly happy.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  The far-reaching world of the moor itself looked softly blue instead of gloomy purple-black or awful dreary gray.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  She walked under one of the fairy-like gray arches between the trees and looked up at the sprays and tendrils which formed them.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
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  There were trees, and flower-beds, and evergreens clipped into strange shapes, and a large pool with an old gray fountain in its midst.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
10  The next day the rain poured down in torrents again, and when Mary looked out of her window the moor was almost hidden by gray mist and cloud.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  There were rich colors in the rugs and hangings and pictures and books on the walls which made it look glowing and comfortable even in spite of the gray sky and falling rain.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
12  And she turned her face toward the streaming panes of the window of the railway carriage and gazed out at the gray rain-storm which looked as if it would go on forever and ever.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
13  Then she crept across the room, and, as she drew nearer, the light attracted the boy's attention and he turned his head on his pillow and stared at her, his gray eyes opening so wide that they seemed immense.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
14  She had bright hair tied up with a blue ribbon and her gay, lovely eyes were exactly like Colin's unhappy ones, agate gray and looking twice as big as they really were because of the black lashes all round them.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
15  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
16  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.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
17  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.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
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