Certainly she had ways with her such as I never saw a child take up before; and she put all of us past our patience fifty times and oftener in a day: from the hour she came downstairs till the hour she went to bed, we had not a minute's security that she wouldn't be in mischief. 
Certainly she put us past our patience fifty times a day. From day-break to bed-time, she was in mischief. 