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1  Mistress Mary felt quite contrary.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  "The rain is as contrary as I ever was," she said.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  Already she felt less "contrary," though she did not know why.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  She began to feel hot and as contrary as she had ever felt in her life.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
5  She knew she felt contrary again, and obstinate, and she did not care at all.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
6  Mary had worn her contrary scowl for an hour after that, but it made her think several entirely new things.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  Something of her contrariness came back to her as she paced the walk and looked over it at the tree-tops inside.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  It was in this way Mistress Mary arrived at Misselthwaite Manor and she had perhaps never felt quite so contrary in all her life.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
9  Mistress Mary forgot that she had ever been contrary in her life when he allowed her to draw closer and closer to him, and bend down and talk and try to make something like robin sounds.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII