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1  She just grew sour and obstinate and did not care what happened.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  He said we were neither of us much to look at and we were as sour as we looked.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
4  She had not known before that this was one of the things which made her feel sour and cross.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  She's begun to be downright pretty since she's filled out and lost her ugly little sour look.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  She looked so sour and old-fashioned that the nurse turned her head aside to hide the twitching of her mouth.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  P'raps tha art a young un, after all, an p'raps tha's got child's blood in thy veins instead of sour buttermilk.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  She was thinking that the small plain face did not look quite as sour at this moment as it had done the first morning she saw it.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  She had never thought much about her looks, but she wondered if she was as unattractive as Ben Weatherstaff and she also wondered if she looked as sour as he had looked before the robin came.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
10  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
11  "I shall not want to go poking about," said sour little Mary and just as suddenly as she had begun to be rather sorry for Mr. Archibald Craven she began to cease to be sorry and to think he was unpleasant enough to deserve all that had happened to him.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
12  If she had been an affectionate child, who had been used to being loved, she would have broken her heart, but even though she was "Mistress Mary Quite Contrary" she was desolate, and the bright-breasted little bird brought a look into her sour little face which was almost a smile.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV