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1  The reddleman looked in the old man's face.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
2  Sure I should never have thought you had the face.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
3  It had a lonely face, suggesting tragical possibilities.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
4  "I fancy I've seen that young man's face before," said Humphrey.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
5  One dye of that tincture covered his clothes, the cap upon his head, his boots, his face, and his hands.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
6  He wore a glazed hat, an ancient boat-cloak, and shoes; his brass buttons bearing an anchor upon their face.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
7  He had neither whisker nor moustache, which allowed the soft curves of the lower part of his face to be apparent.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
8  Her face, encompassed by the blackness of the receding heath, showed whitely, and with-out half-lights, like a cameo.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
9  Ah, Humph, well I can mind when I was married how I zid thy father's mark staring me in the face as I went to put down my name.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
10  She had something of an estranged mien; the solitude exhaled from the heath was concentrated in this face that had risen from it.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
11  But these shaggy recesses were at all seasons a familiar surrounding to Olly and Mrs. Yeobright; and the addition of darkness lends no frightfulness to the face of a friend.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
12  He was young, and his face, if not exactly handsome, approached so near to handsome that nobody would have contradicted an assertion that it really was so in its natural colour.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
13  In the valleys of the heath nothing save its own wild face was visible at any time of day; but this spot commanded a horizon enclosing a tract of far extent, and in many cases lying beyond the heath country.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
14  Hence it may be that the face of an old man, who had like others been called to the heights by the rising flames, was not really the mere nose and chin that it appeared to be, but an appreciable quantity of human countenance.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
15  "'Be damned if there isn't Mis'ess Yeobright a-standing up, I said," the narrator repeated, giving out the bad word with the same passionless severity of face as before, which proved how entirely necessity and not gusto had to do with the iteration.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
16  The face of the heath by its mere complexion added half an hour to evening; it could in like manner retard the dawn, sadden noon, anticipate the frowning of storms scarcely generated, and intensify the opacity of a moonless midnight to a cause of shaking and dread.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
17  Yet the permanent moral expression of each face it was impossible to discover, for as the nimble flames towered, nodded, and swooped through the surrounding air, the blots of shade and flakes of light upon the countenances of the group changed shape and position endlessly.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
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