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1  If you did it was only a hysterical lump.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  He's having one of those tantrums the nurse called hysterics.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  "He's worked himself into hysterics," she said in a great hurry.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  She liked the word "hysterics" and felt somehow as if it had an effect on him.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  He had never told any one but Mary that most of his "tantrums" as they called them grew out of his hysterical hidden fear.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  After that he scarcely ever saw him except when he was asleep, and all he knew of him was that he was a confirmed invalid, with a vicious, hysterical, half-insane temper.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
7  He was always sent for at once when such a thing occurred and he always found, when he arrived, a white shaken boy lying on his bed, sulky and still so hysterical that he was ready to break into fresh sobbing at the least word.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  If this tiresome hysterical boy should chance to get well he himself would lose all chance of inheriting Misselthwaite; but he was not an unscrupulous man, though he was a weak one, and he did not intend to let him run into actual danger.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX