1 The lad stood before Durbeyfield, and contemplated his length from crown to toe.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 2 The lad departed, and Durbeyfield lay waiting on the grass and daisies in the evening sun.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 3 As for Tess Durbeyfield, she did not so easily dislodge the incident from her consideration.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 4 Even now, when burdened with a young family, Joan Durbeyfield was a passionate lover of tune.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 5 Tess Durbeyfield at this time of her life was a mere vessel of emotion untinctured by experience.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 6 In a few minutes a youth appeared in the distance, walking in the same direction as that which had been pursued by Durbeyfield.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 7 He took almost the first that came to hand, which was not the speaker, as she had expected; nor did it happen to be Tess Durbeyfield.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 8 Joan Durbeyfield, as she spoke, curved a sodden thumb and forefinger to the shape of the letter C, and used the other forefinger as a pointer.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 9 As usual, Mrs Durbeyfield was balanced on one foot beside the tub, the other being engaged in the aforesaid business of rocking her youngest child.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 10 And as he made the announcement, Durbeyfield, declining from his sitting position, luxuriously stretched himself out upon the bank among the daisies.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 11 As the lad stood in a dubious attitude, Durbeyfield put his hand in his pocket, and produced a shilling, one of the chronically few that he possessed.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 12 When he was gone, Durbeyfield walked a few steps in a profound reverie, and then sat down upon the grassy bank by the roadside, depositing his basket before him.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 13 As he fell out of the dance his eyes lighted on Tess Durbeyfield, whose own large orbs wore, to tell the truth, the faintest aspect of reproach that he had not chosen her.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 14 Nothing was seen or heard further of Durbeyfield in his triumphal chariot under the conduct of the ostleress, and the club having entered the allotted space, dancing began.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 15 As she looked round Durbeyfield was seen moving along the road in a chaise belonging to The Pure Drop, driven by a frizzle-headed brawny damsel with her gown-sleeves rolled above her elbows.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 16 Nick-knock, nick-knock, went the cradle; the candle-flame stretched itself tall, and began jigging up and down; the water dribbled from the matron's elbows, and the song galloped on to the end of the verse, Mrs Durbeyfield regarding her daughter the while.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 17 His own investigations had begun on a day in the preceding spring when, having been engaged in tracing the vicissitudes of the d'Urberville family, he had observed Durbeyfield's name on his waggon, and had thereupon been led to make inquiries about his father and grandfather till he had no doubt on the subject.
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