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1  Colin put out his thin hand and touched her.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  It was a poor thin back to look at when it was bared.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  Mary's thin hands clutched each other as they lay on her lap.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
4  Nothing really ails them," he said, "but they are so thin and weak.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  "I don't like it," and she pinched her thin lips more tightly together.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
6  A neat, thin old man stood near the manservant who opened the door for them.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
7  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
8  She had nothing to read or to look at, and she had folded her thin little black-gloved hands in her lap.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
9  And he waved a thin hand which ought really to have been covered with royal signet rings made of rubies.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  He had also a lot of hair which tumbled over his forehead in heavy locks and made his thin face seem smaller.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  She ran out of the room, and Mary stood by the fire and twisted her thin little hands together with sheer pleasure.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  When she went out and closed the door, Mary could only stand waiting, a plain little thing, twisting her thin hands together.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  He was rather thin with living on moor grass but he was as tough and wiry as if the muscle in his little legs had been made of steel springs.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
14  There was a brief fierce scramble, the rugs were tossed on the ground, Dickon held Colin's arm, the thin legs were out, the thin feet were on the grass.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
15  But the big breaths of rough fresh air blown over the heather filled her lungs with something which was good for her whole thin body and whipped some red color into her cheeks and brightened her dull eyes when she did not know anything about it.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
16  A wheeled chair with luxurious cushions and robes which came toward him looking rather like some sort of State Coach because a young Rajah leaned back in it with royal command in his great black-rimmed eyes and a thin white hand extended haughtily toward him.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
17  There were neither leaves nor roses on them now and Mary did not know whether they were dead or alive, but their thin gray or brown branches and sprays looked like a sort of hazy mantle spreading over everything, walls, and trees, and even brown grass, where they had fallen from their fastenings and run along the ground.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
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