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1  Eustacia stood motionless awhile.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 8 Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil
2  After standing awhile he stooped and felt the heather.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
3  She reclined over the garden gate as if to refresh herself awhile.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 1 "Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery"
4  He had reached the stage in a young man's life when the grimness of the general human situation first becomes clear; and the realization of this causes ambition to halt awhile.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
5  Then Thomasin, whose stupor of grief had been thrust off awhile by frantic action, applied a bottle of hartshorn to Clym's nostrils, having tried it in vain upon the other two.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
6  His progress when actually walking was more rapid than Mrs. Yeobright's; but she was enabled to keep at an equable distance from him by his habit of stopping whenever he came to a brake of brambles, where he paused awhile.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 5 The Journey across the Heath
7  The pool outside the bank by Eustacia's dwelling, which seemed as dead and desolate as ever to an observer who moved and made noises in his observation, would gradually disclose a state of great animation when silently watched awhile.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama