1 character to the last, and to have disappeared mysteriously.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 6: 3 The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin 2 In respect of character a face may make certain admissions by its outline; but it fully confesses only in its changes.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 3 A direct fall from upright to horizontal, which was the end of the other fighting characters, was not an elegant or decorous part for a girl.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight 4 They were enclosed in a sort of luminous mist, which hid from them surroundings of any inharmonious colour, and gave to all things the character of light.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 1 The Rencounter by the Pool 5 He gazed into her face in a vague, wondering manner, like that of one examining some strange old manuscript the key to whose characters is undiscoverable.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian 6 They were walking slowly; and though it was too dark for much discovery of character from aspect, the gait of them showed that they were not workers on the heath.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream 7 This contained among other articles a brown-paper packet, which, to judge from the hinge-like character of its worn folds, seemed to have been carefully opened and closed a good many times.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 8 Moreover, after looking at him one would have hazarded the guess that good nature, and an acuteness as extreme as it could be without verging on craft, formed the framework of his character.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 9 Persons with any weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits; and the matron who entered now upon the scene could, and usually did, bring her own tone into a company.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 10 Hence Yeobright sometimes sang to himself, and when obliged to accompany Humphrey in search of brambles for faggot-bonds he would amuse his companion with sketches of Parisian life and character, and so while away the time.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song 11 He did not add, as he might have added, that how he came to be in that neighbourhood was not by accident; that, since Wildeve's resumption of his right to Thomasin, Venn, with the thoroughness which was part of his character, had determined to see the end of the episode.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart 12 Next day she went her ways as usual, and continued her custom of walking in the heath with no other companion than little Eustacia, now of the age when it is a matter of doubt with such characters whether they are intended to walk through the world on their hands or on their feet; so that they get into painful complications by trying both.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 6: 2 Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road