1 The evening of the same day saw the empty waggon reach again the spot of the accident.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 2 The lad departed, and Durbeyfield lay waiting on the grass and daisies in the evening sun.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 3 A week afterwards she came in one evening from an unavailing search for some light occupation in the immediate neighbourhood.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 4 In the afternoon and evening the proceedings of the morning were continued, Tess staying on till dusk with the body of harvesters.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 5 Several other women also chimed in, with an animus which none of them would have been so fatuous as to show but for the rollicking evening they had passed.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: X 6 On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore, or Blackmoor.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 7 The name of the eclipsing girl, whatever it was, has not been handed down; but she was envied by all as the first who enjoyed the luxury of a masculine partner that evening.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 8 She was silent, and the horse ambled along for a considerable distance, till a faint luminous fog, which had hung in the hollows all the evening, became general and enveloped them.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: XI 9 They, with two others below, formed the revolving Maltese cross of the reaping-machine, which had been brought to the field on the previous evening to be ready for operations this day.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 10 The ripe hue of the red and dun kine absorbed the evening sunlight, which the white-coated animals returned to the eye in rays almost dazzling, even at the distant elevation on which she stood.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVI 11 She had seen daily from her chamber-window towers, villages, faint white mansions; above all, the town of Shaston standing majestically on its height; its windows shining like lamps in the evening sun.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: V 12 She saw nothing at supper-time of the superior milker who had commented on the story, and asked no questions about him, the remainder of the evening being occupied in arranging her place in the bed-chamber.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVII 13 She knew how to hit to a hair's-breadth that moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the constraint of day and the suspense of night neutralize each other, leaving absolute mental liberty.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIII 14 Their chatter, their laughter, their good-humoured innuendoes, above all, their flashes and flickerings of envy, revived Tess's spirits also; and, as the evening wore on, she caught the infection of their excitement, and grew almost gay.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIII 15 It was a fine September evening, just before sunset, when yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines, and the atmosphere itself forms a prospect without aid from more solid objects, except the innumerable winged insects that dance in it.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: X 16 In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking beatitude; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 17 In spite of the untoward surroundings, however, Tess bravely made a little cross of two laths and a piece of string, and having bound it with flowers, she stuck it up at the head of the grave one evening when she could enter the churchyard without being seen, putting at the foot also a bunch of the same flowers in a little jar of water to keep them alive.
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