1 On Sundays Mister Richard Crick.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVII 2 Dairyman Crick withdrew, and Tess dropped behind.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXII 3 Mrs Crick's mind kept nearer to the matter in hand.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXI 4 Dairyman Crick was discovered stamping about the house.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXII 5 Dairyman Crick's household of maids and men lived on comfortably, placidly, even merrily.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XX 6 "My grandfather used to go to Conjuror Mynterne, out at Owlscombe, and a clever man a were, so I've heard grandf'er say," continued Mr Crick.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXI 7 There were nearly a hundred milchers under Crick's management, all told; and of the herd the master-dairyman milked six or eight with his own hands, unless away from home.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVII 8 About this time they would hear Dairyman Crick's voice, lecturing the non-resident milkers for arriving late, and speaking sharply to old Deborah Fyander for not washing her hands.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XX 9 Dairyman Crick's stories often seemed to be ended when they were not really so, and strangers were betrayed into premature interjections of finality; though old friends knew better.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXI 10 Well, as to going up into their horns," replied Dairyman Crick dubiously, as though even witchcraft might be limited by anatomical possibilities, "I couldn't say; I certainly could not.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVII 11 Several of them gathered round him; and Mr Clare tasted, Tess tasted, also the other indoor milkmaids, one or two of the milking-men, and last of all Mrs Crick, who came out from the waiting breakfast-table.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXII 12 It was Dairyman Crick's rule to insist on breaking down these partialities and aversions by constant interchange, since otherwise, in the event of a milkman or maid going away from the dairy, he was placed in a difficulty.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XIX 13 Such unequal attachments had led to marriage; and she had heard from Mrs Crick that Mr Clare had one day asked, in a laughing way, what would be the use of his marrying a fine lady, and all the while ten thousand acres of Colonial pasture to feed, and cattle to rear, and corn to reap.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXI 14 The milking progressed, till towards the end Tess and Clare, in common with the rest, could hear the heavy breakfast table dragged out from the wall in the kitchen by Mrs Crick, this being the invariable preliminary to each meal; the same horrible scrape accompanying its return journey when the table had been cleared.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XX 15 Dairyman Crick and his wife, the milkmaids Tess, Marian, Retty Priddle, Izz Huett, and the married ones from the cottages; also Mr Clare, Jonathan Kail, old Deborah, and the rest, stood gazing hopelessly at the churn; and the boy who kept the horse going outside put on moon-like eyes to show his sense of the situation.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXI 16 The early mornings were still sufficiently cool to render a fire acceptable in the large room wherein they breakfasted; and, by Mrs Crick's orders, who held that he was too genteel to mess at their table, it was Angel Clare's custom to sit in the yawning chimney-corner during the meal, his cup-and-saucer and plate being placed on a hinged flap at his elbow.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVIII 17 The cows jumped wildly over the five-barred barton-gate, maddened by the gad-fly; Dairyman Crick kept his shirt-sleeves permanently rolled up from Monday to Saturday; open windows had no effect in ventilation without open doors, and in the dairy-garden the blackbirds and thrushes crept about under the currant-bushes, rather in the manner of quadrupeds than of winged creatures.
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