1 If he were dead it might be different.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVI 2 The dead silence within was broken only by a regular beat.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LVI 3 They sat down upon some dead boughs and shared their meal.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LVII 4 Marian had been like a sack of meal, a dead weight of plumpness under which he has literally staggered.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXIII 5 Propensities, tendencies, habits, were as dead leaves upon the tyrannous wind of his imaginative ascendency.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVI 6 On going up to the fire to throw a pitch of dead weeds upon it, she found that he did the same on the other side.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: L 7 Yes; the Durbeyfield couple had changed places; the dying one was out of danger, and the indisposed one was dead.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: L 8 She scraped together the dead leaves till she had formed them into a large heap, making a sort of nest in the middle.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLI 9 Just now heaps of dead weeds and refuse were burning on many of the plots, the dry weather favouring their combustion.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: L 10 Tess soon went onward into the village, her footsteps echoing against the houses as though it were a place of the dead.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLIV 11 He turned the horse's head into the bushes, hitched him on to a bough, and made a sort of couch or nest for her in the deep mass of dead leaves.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: XI 12 Clare then lay down on the ground alongside, when he immediately fell into the deep dead slumber of exhaustion, and remained motionless as a log.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVII 13 But he was already dead, and, seeing that nothing more could be done immediately, the mail-cart man returned to his own animal, which was uninjured.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 14 The obscurity was now so great that he could see absolutely nothing but a pale nebulousness at his feet, which represented the white muslin figure he had left upon the dead leaves.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: XI 15 The wound was small, but the point of the blade had touched the heart of the victim, who lay on his back, pale, fixed, dead, as if he had scarcely moved after the infliction of the blow.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LVI 16 Out of doors there began noises as of silk smartly rubbed; the restful dead leaves of the preceding autumn were stirred to irritated resurrection, and whirled about unwillingly, and tapped against the shutters.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXIV 17 On inquiry of these precious innocents, to whom even the name of their predecessors was a failing memory, Clare learned that John Durbeyfield was dead; that his widow and children had left Marlott, declaring that they were going to live at Kingsbere, but instead of doing so had gone on to another place they mentioned.
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