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1  "And he would hardly afford good fuel like that," said the wide woman.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
2  Surely 'tis somewhat childish of you to stay out playing at bonfires so long, and wasting such fuel.'
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
3  But this detracted little from its interest, which lay in the excellent fuel it provided for newly kindled fervour.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
4  The bonfire was by this time beginning to sink low, for the fuel had not been of that substantial sort which can support a blaze long.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
5  When all the surrounding bonfires had burst into existence Charley kindled his, and arranged its fuel so that it should not require tending for some time.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
6  His passion for her had occurred too far on in his manhood to leave fuel enough on hand for another fire of that sort, as may happen with more boyish loves.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward
7  This was a small human hand, in the act of lifting pieces of fuel into the fire, but for all that could be seen the hand, like that which troubled Belshazzar, was there alone.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
8  It was not till his stock of fuel had greatly diminished that he went to the back door and sent in to beg that Mrs. Yeobright would open the window-shutters and see the sight outside.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
9  At eight o'clock, the hour at which Eustacia had promised to signal Wildeve if ever she signalled at all, she looked around the premises to learn if the coast was clear, went to the furze-rick, and pulled thence a long-stemmed bough of that fuel.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
10  It was dusk, and she was sitting by the fire in the dining-room or hall, which they occupied at this time of the year in preference to the parlour, because of its large hearth, constructed for turf-fires, a fuel the captain was partial to in the winter season.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
11  With a speaker, or stake, he tossed the outlying scraps of fuel into the conflagration, looking at the midst of the pile, occasionally lifting his eyes to measure the height of the flame, or to follow the great sparks which rose with it and sailed away into darkness.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country