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1  Tha was in a fine temper tha'self, too.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  She was not used to any one's tempers but her own.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  He said he'd warrant we'd both got the same nasty tempers.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  She flew along the corridor and the nearer she got to the screams the higher her temper mounted.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  Martha sat up on her heels, with her blacking-brush in her hand, and laughed, without seeming the least out of temper.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  He had never caught even a glimpse of the boy and had heard a dozen exaggerated stories about his uncanny looks and ways and his insane tempers.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
7  After that he scarcely ever saw him except when he was asleep, and all he knew of him was that he was a confirmed invalid, with a vicious, hysterical, half-insane temper.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  She knew nothing about the pitifulness of people who had been ill and nervous and who did not know that they could control their tempers and need not make other people ill and nervous, too.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI