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1  Tess at length joined them, without lighting a candle.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6 The Convert: LI
2  We spoke lightly perhaps, and you may well have done so.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXIV
3  Viewing her in these lights, a regret for his hasty judgement began to oppress him.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6 The Convert: XLIX
4  He leapt up lightly, arranged the reins, and was gone between the tall red-berried hedges.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2 Maiden No More: XII
5  "I was born at Marlott," she said, catching at his words as a help, lightly as they were spoken.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4 The Consequence: XXX
6  Meanwhile Tess had hastily dressed herself; and the twain, lighting a lantern, went out to the stable.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: IV
7  Over the tester of the bedstead was a beautiful traceried window, of many lights, its date being the fifteenth century.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6 The Convert: LII
8  Not expecting this, he had put his arm lightly round her waist the moment after speaking, beneath her hanging tail of hair.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4 The Consequence: XXIX
9  She induced him to lie down on his own sofa bed, and covered him up warmly, lighting a temporary fire of wood, to dry any dampness out of him.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVII
10  It was about midnight when they went along the deserted streets, lighted fitfully by the few lamps, keeping off the pavement that it might not echo their footsteps.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 7 Fulfilment: LVIII
11  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.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: II
12  And now as he looked into the candle its flame dumbly expressed to him that it was made to shine on sensible people, and that it abhorred lighting the face of a dupe and a failure.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXIX
13  She was most probably engaged to do something in one of these large houses; and he sauntered along, looking at the chamber-windows and their lights going out one by one, and wondered which of them might be hers.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 7 Fulfilment: LV
14  It was a fine September evening, just before sunset, when yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines, and the atmosphere itself forms a prospect without aid from more solid objects, except the innumerable winged insects that dance in it.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: X