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1  "My Ayah did it," answered Mary, staring.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Martha sat up on her heels again and stared.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  When she awakened she lay and stared at the wall.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
4  The child stared at him, but she stared most at her mother.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
5  "Humph," muttered Mrs. Medlock, staring at her queer, unresponsive little face.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
6  But something troubled and awkward in her manner made Mistress Mary stare very hard at her.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
7  She walked slowly down this place and stared at the faces which also seemed to stare at her.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  When he did awake at last it was brilliant morning and a servant was standing staring at him.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  Sometimes I have been taken to places at the seaside, but I won't stay because people stare at me.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  Colin lay quiet a little while and his strange gray eyes seemed to be staring at the wall, but Mary saw he was thinking.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  The nurse, Mrs. Medlock and Martha had been standing huddled together near the door staring at her, their mouths half open.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  A broad window with leaded panes looked out upon the moor; and over the mantel was another portrait of the stiff, plain little girl who seemed to stare at her more curiously than ever.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  Instead of lying and staring at the wall and wishing he had not awakened, his mind was full of the plans he and Mary had made yesterday, of pictures of the garden and of Dickon and his wild creatures.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
14  Then when they took me to the seaside and I used to lie in my carriage everybody used to stare and ladies would stop and talk to my nurse and then they would begin to whisper and I knew then they were saying I shouldn't live to grow up.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
15  She ate a great deal and afterward fell asleep herself, and Mary sat and stared at her and watched her fine bonnet slip on one side until she herself fell asleep once more in the corner of the carriage, lulled by the splashing of the rain against the windows.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
16  She was in such a rage and felt so helpless before the girl's simple stare, and somehow she suddenly felt so horribly lonely and far away from everything she understood and which understood her, that she threw herself face downward on the pillows and burst into passionate sobbing.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
17  And she ran into the middle of the room and, taking a handle in each hand, began to skip, and skip, and skip, while Mary turned in her chair to stare at her, and the queer faces in the old portraits seemed to stare at her, too, and wonder what on earth this common little cottager had the impudence to be doing under their very noses.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
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