1 In those days, and till comparatively recent times, the country was densely wooded.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 2 Tess had never before visited this part of the country, and yet she felt akin to the landscape.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVI 3 A casual encounter during some country ramble it certainly had been, and he was not greatly curious about it.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVIII 4 They were generous young souls; they had been reared in the lonely country nooks where fatalism is a strong sentiment, and they did not blame her.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXIII 5 If I have a very large farm, either English or colonial, you will be invaluable as a wife to me; better than a woman out of the largest mansion in the country.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXX 6 It was Christmas Eve, with its loads a holly and mistletoe, and the town was very full of strangers who had come in from all parts of the country on account of the day.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXIII 7 A knowledge of his career having come to the ears of Mr Clare, when he was in that part of the country preaching missionary sermons, he boldly took occasion to speak to the delinquent on his spiritual state.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVI 8 Rising still, an immense landscape stretched around them on every side; behind, the green valley of her birth, before, a gray country of which she knew nothing except from her first brief visit to Trantridge.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VIII 9 Tess could eventually join him there, and perhaps in that country of contrasting scenes and notions and habits the conventions would not be so operative which made life with her seem impracticable to him here.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXIX 10 She went through Stourcastle without pausing and onward to a junction of highways, where she could await a carrier's van that ran to the south-west; for the railways which engirdled this interior tract of country had never yet struck across it.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVI 11 A small minority, mainly strangers, would look long at her in casually passing by, and grow momentarily fascinated by her freshness, and wonder if they would ever see her again: but to almost everybody she was a fine and picturesque country girl, and no more.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 12 This fertile and sheltered tract of country, in which the fields are never brown and the springs never dry, is bounded on the south by the bold chalk ridge that embraces the prominences of Hambledon Hill, Bulbarrow, Nettlecombe-Tout, Dogbury, High Stoy, and Bubb Down.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 13 Early association with country solitudes had bred in him an unconquerable, and almost unreasonable, aversion to modern town life, and shut him out from such success as he might have aspired to by following a mundane calling in the impracticability of the spiritual one.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVIII 14 A difficulty of arranging their lips in this crude exposure to public scrutiny, an inability to balance their heads, and to dissociate self-consciousness from their features, was apparent in them, and showed that they were genuine country girls, unaccustomed to many eyes.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 15 The country custom of unreserved comradeship out of doors during betrothal was the only custom she knew, and to her it had no strangeness; though it seemed oddly anticipative to Clare till he saw how normal a thing she, in common with all the other dairy-folk, regarded it.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXI 16 The traveller from the coast, who, after plodding northward for a score of miles over calcareous downs and corn-lands, suddenly reaches the verge of one of these escarpments, is surprised and delighted to behold, extended like a map beneath him, a country differing absolutely from that which he has passed through.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 17 She thought of the child consigned to the nethermost corner of hell, as its double doom for lack of baptism and lack of legitimacy; saw the arch-fiend tossing it with his three-pronged fork, like the one they used for heating the oven on baking days; to which picture she added many other quaint and curious details of torment sometimes taught the young in this Christian country.
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