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1  "She's the best sick nurse I know," said Dr. Craven.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
2  She put her hands over her ears and felt sick and shivering.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  One of his darkest miseries in the unhealthy morbid past days had been his hatred of being a sickly weak-backed boy whose father was afraid to look at him.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  The nurse was just going to give up the case because she was so sick of him, but she says she doesn't mind staying now you've gone on duty with her, laughing a little.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
6  "It's the best thing that could happen to the sickly pampered thing to have some one to stand up to him that's as spoiled as himself;" and she laughed into her handkerchief again.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  So long as Mistress Mary's mind was full of disagreeable thoughts about her dislikes and sour opinions of people and her determination not to be pleased by or interested in anything, she was a yellow-faced, sickly, bored and wretched child.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII