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1  He had but three activities alive in him.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: 3 The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin
2  "Man alive, you've been quick at it," said Diggory sarcastically.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
3  "I have only been able to get one alive and fresh as he ought to be," said Sam.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
4  Her nature was to be civil to enemies as well as to friends, and grateful to all the world for letting her remain alive.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
5  Three antagonistic growths had to be kept alive: his mother's trust in him, his plan for becoming a teacher, and Eustacia's happiness.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
6  As he watched, the dead flat of the scenery overpowered him, though he was fully alive to the beauty of that untarnished early summer green which was worn for the nonce by the poorest blade.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
7  Yet Thomasin occupied Mrs. Yeobright's thoughts but slightly as she looked up the valley of the heath, alive with butterflies, and with grasshoppers whose husky noises on every side formed a whispered chorus.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
8  Their skirts were scratched noisily by the furze, their shoulders brushed by the ferns, which, though dead and dry, stood erect as when alive, no sufficient winter weather having as yet arrived to beat them down.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
9  The last occasion on which he had lingered by that fireplace was when the raffle was in progress; when Wildeve was alive and well; Thomasin active and smiling in the next room; Yeobright and Eustacia just made husband and wife, and Mrs. Yeobright living at Blooms-End.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
10  It was one of those sentiments which lurk like moles underneath the visible surface of manners, and may have been kept alive by Eustacia's entreaty to the captain, at the time that he had intended to prosecute Susan for the pricking in church, to let the matter drop; which he accordingly had done.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding