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1  He was always teasing his sisters.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
2  Our grandmama lives there and our sister Mabel was sent to her last year.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
3  You'll have to learn to play like other children does when they haven't got sisters and brothers.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  The nurse went away yesterday to stay all night with her sister and she always makes Martha attend to me when she wants to go out.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  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
6  Martha had "buttoned up" her little sisters and brothers but she had never seen a child who stood still and waited for another person to do things for her as if she had neither hands nor feet of her own.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  She had not wanted to go to London just when her sister Maria's daughter was going to be married, but she had a comfortable, well paid place as housekeeper at Misselthwaite Manor and the only way in which she could keep it was to do at once what Mr. Archibald Craven told her to do.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
8  She was very young, and used to a crowded cottage full of brothers and sisters, and she found it dull in the great servants' hall downstairs where the footman and upper-housemaids made fun of her Yorkshire speech and looked upon her as a common little thing, and sat and whispered among themselves.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
9  She was, however, only an untrained Yorkshire rustic who had been brought up in a moorland cottage with a swarm of little brothers and sisters who had never dreamed of doing anything but waiting on themselves and on the younger ones who were either babies in arms or just learning to totter about and tumble over things.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV