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1  I saw a woman on Rainbarrow at dusk looking down towards my house.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
2  And Eustacia again strolled away from the fire, but this time not towards Rainbarrow.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
3  The front of the house was towards the heath and Rainbarrow, whose dark shape seemed to threaten it from the sky.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
4  Descending from her perch she again sauntered off towards Rainbarrow, though this time she did not go the whole way.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
5  Instead of turning in the direction of home he pressed on rapidly by a path under Rainbarrow towards what was evidently a signal light.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
6  High above this to the right, and much nearer thitherward than the Quiet Woman Inn, the blurred contour of Rainbarrow obstructed the sky.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
7  He looked absently towards Rainbarrow while one might have counted twenty, and said, as if he did not much mind all this, "Yes, I will go home."
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
8  Far away up the sombre valley of heath, and to the right of Rainbarrow, could indeed be seen the light, small, but steady and persistent as before.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
9  Her course was in the direction of the small undying fire which had drawn the attention of the men on Rainbarrow and of Wildeve in the valley below.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
10  The first, when she stood upon Rainbarrow, had expressed anxiety; the second, on the ridge, had expressed impatience; the present was one of triumphant pleasure.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
11  The first tall flame from Rainbarrow sprang into the sky, attracting all eyes that had been fixed on the distant conflagrations back to their own attempt in the same kind.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
12  It was to the full as lonely a place as Rainbarrow, though at rather a lower level; and it was more sheltered from wind and weather on account of the few firs to the north.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
13  The loads were all laid together, and a pyramid of furze thirty feet in circumference now occupied the crown of the tumulus, which was known as Rainbarrow for many miles round.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
14  After this he returned on foot some part of the way that he had come; and, it being now dark, he diverged to the left till he stood behind a holly bush on the edge of a pit not twenty yards from Rainbarrow.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
15  Wildeve attended them to the door, beyond which the deep-dyed upward stretch of heath stood awaiting them, an amplitude of darkness reigning from their feet almost to the zenith, where a definite form first became visible in the lowering forehead of Rainbarrow.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
16  The young men were not slow to imitate the example of their elders, and seized the maids; Grandfer Cantle and his stick jigged in the form of a three-legged object among the rest; and in half a minute all that could be seen on Rainbarrow was a whirling of dark shapes amid a boiling confusion of sparks, which leapt around the dancers as high as their waists.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
17  The next morning, at the time when the height of the sun appeared very insignificant from any part of the heath as compared with the altitude of Rainbarrow, and when all the little hills in the lower levels were like an archipelago in a fog-formed Aegean, the reddleman came from the brambled nook which he had adopted as his quarters and ascended the slopes of Mistover Knap.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
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