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1  "Thank you indeed," said Mrs. Yeobright.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
2  "Why, 'tis Mis'ess Yeobright," said Fairway.'
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
3  "I am sorry to stop the talk," said Mrs. Yeobright.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
4  Wildeve is older than Tamsin Yeobright by a good-few summers.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
5  "A harrowing old man, Mis'ess Yeobright," said Christian despondingly.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
6  'Well, be damned if there isn't Mis'ess Yeobright a-standing up,' I said to myself.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
7  I hardly blame Thomasin Yeobright and neighbour Wildeve for doing it quiet, if I must own it.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
8  This accounted for Mrs. Yeobright's acquiescence in the revival of an evidently sore subject.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
9  I've such a bad memory, Mis'ess Yeobright, that I forget how I'm looked up to by the rest of 'em.'
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
10  I met Mis'ess Yeobright, the young bride's aunt, last night, and she told me that her son Clym was coming home a Christmas.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
11  I not only happened to be there," said Fairway, with a fresh collection of emphasis, "but I was sitting in the same pew as Mis'ess Yeobright.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
12  "'Twould be more seemly in ye to stand still and welcome Mis'ess Yeobright, and you the venerablest here, Grandfer Cantle," said the besom-woman.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
13  But these shaggy recesses were at all seasons a familiar surrounding to Olly and Mrs. Yeobright; and the addition of darkness lends no frightfulness to the face of a friend.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
14  "Well, I can't understand a quiet ladylike little body like Tamsin Yeobright caring to be married in such a mean way," said Susan Nunsuch, the wide woman, who preferred the original subject.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
15  "After that Mis'ess Yeobright came round and was quite agreeable," Fairway resumed, with an unheeding air, to show that his words were no appendage to Humphrey's, but the result of independent reflection.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
16  "You don't take after your father," said Mrs. Yeobright, looking towards the fire, where Grandfer Cantle, with some want of originality, was dancing by himself among the sparks, as the others had done before.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
17  "'Be damned if there isn't Mis'ess Yeobright a-standing up, I said," the narrator repeated, giving out the bad word with the same passionless severity of face as before, which proved how entirely necessity and not gusto had to do with the iteration.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
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