1 The thirty-first of December, New Year's Eve, was the date.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXII 2 It was not Christmas Eve then, but it came into his head to play a trick upon the bull.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVII 3 You are Eve, and I am the old Other One come to tempt you in the disguise of an inferior animal.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: L 4 The spectral, half-compounded, aqueous light which pervaded the open mead impressed them with a feeling of isolation, as if they were Adam and Eve.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XX 5 At length it was the eve of Old Lady-Day, and the agricultural world was in a fever of mobility such as only occurs at that particular date of the year.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: LI 6 It was Christmas Eve, with its loads a holly and mistletoe, and the town was very full of strangers who had come in from all parts of the country on account of the day.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXIII 7 William used to say that he'd seen a man look a fool a good many times, but never such a fool as that bull looked when he found his pious feelings had been played upon, and 'twas not Christmas Eve.'
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVII 8 At first she would not look straight up at him, but her eyes soon lifted, and his plumbed the deepness of the ever-varying pupils, with their radiating fibrils of blue, and black, and gray, and violet, while she regarded him as Eve at her second waking might have regarded Adam.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVII