1 "I'll take the baby, ma'am," he said.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers 2 At last she went to the baby's bedside.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers 3 "Take the baby, please, Mrs. Wildeve," he said hastily.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together 4 Thomasin hesitated a moment, and then delivered the baby into Venn's hands.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers 5 Rachel was a girl about thirteen, who carried the baby out for airings; and she came upstairs at the call.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 6: 2 Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road 6 Owing to her baby, who somewhat impeded Thomasin's view forward and distracted her mind, she did at last lose the track.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers 7 When you went out this evening I thought that as baby was asleep I would see where you were going to so mysteriously without telling me.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter 8 When they were more than usually tall she lifted the baby to the top of her head, that it might be out of the reach of their drenching fronds.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers 9 Thomasin briefly kissed the baby, and then found time to begin crying as she said, "I brought baby, for I was afraid what might happen to her."
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers 10 Thomasin then, as always, was glad to see Clym, and took him to inspect the sleeping baby, carefully screening the candlelight from the infant's eyes with her hand.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter 11 In this agony of suspense she entered the house, put the baby in a place of safety, woke the lad and the female domestic, and ran out to give the alarm at the nearest cottage.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together 12 She remained thinking, then said to herself that she would not go out that afternoon, but would work hard at the baby's unfinished lovely plaid frock, cut on the cross in the newest fashion.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 6: 2 Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road 13 "The baby is dry enough, but you are pretty wet," said the reddleman when, in closing the door of his cart to padlock it, he noticed on the floor a ring of water drops where her cloak had hung from her.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers 14 Thomasin, being left alone, took off some of her wet garments, carried the baby upstairs to Clym's bed, and then came down to the sitting-room again, where she made a larger fire, and began drying herself.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers 15 The woman walking in front carried a white bundle in her arms, from one end of which hung a long appendage of drapery; and when the walkers turned, so that the sun fell more directly upon them, Eustacia could see that the object was a baby.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated 16 The life of this sweet cousin, her baby, and her servants, came to Clym's senses only in the form of sounds through a wood partition as he sat over books of exceptionally large type; but his ear became at last so accustomed to these slight noises from the other part of the house that he almost could witness the scenes they signified.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward