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1  Soon after, faint sounds floated to her ear from afar over the hills.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
2  The form of Rainbarrow stood above the hills, and the moon stood above Rainbarrow.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
3  Perhaps that was because she frequented a vaster mansion than any of them, the open hills.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
4  It was once when he stood parting from Eustacia in the moist still levels beyond the hills.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 3 Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning
5  Once it surprised her notions by remarking upon the friendliness and geniality written in the faces of the hills around.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
6  Mrs. Yeobright glanced around at the dark sky, at the hills, at the perishing bonfires, and at the lighted window of the inn they had neared.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
7  The heat of the day had scarcely declined as yet, and she went along the sunny hills at a leisurely pace, there being ample time for her idle expedition.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
8  Though these shaggy hills were apparently so solitary, several keen round eyes were always ready on such a wintry morning as this to converge upon a passer-by.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
9  She acted as the most exemplary might have acted, being so influenced; she took an airing twice or thrice a day upon the Egdon hills, and kept her eyes employed.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
10  Such a perfect, delicate, and necessary finish did the figure give to the dark pile of hills that it seemed to be the only obvious justification of their outline.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
11  Having been seated at work all day, he decided to take a turn upon the hills before it got dark; and, going out forthwith, he struck across the heath towards Mistover.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
12  When it rained they were charmed, because they could remain indoors together all day with such a show of reason; when it was fine they were charmed, because they could sit together on the hills.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 1 The Rencounter by the Pool
13  Her grandfather was in bed at this hour, for she so frequently walked upon the hills on moonlight nights that he took no notice of her comings and goings, and, enjoying himself in his own way, left her to do likewise.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
14  She tried to dismiss the vision, and walked about the garden plot; but her eyes ever and anon sought out the direction of the parish church to which Mistover belonged, and her excited fancy clove the hills which divided the building from her eyes.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
15  But here, away from comparisons, shut in by the stable hills, among which mere walking had the novelty of pageantry, and where any man could imagine himself to be Adam without the least difficulty, they attracted the attention of every bird within eyeshot, every reptile not yet asleep, and set the surrounding rabbits curiously watching from hillocks at a safe distance.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 1 Tidings of the Comer
16  The next morning, at the time when the height of the sun appeared very insignificant from any part of the heath as compared with the altitude of Rainbarrow, and when all the little hills in the lower levels were like an archipelago in a fog-formed Aegean, the reddleman came from the brambled nook which he had adopted as his quarters and ascended the slopes of Mistover Knap.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
17  The open hills were airy and clear, and the remote atmosphere appeared, as it often appears on a fine winter day, in distinct planes of illumination independently toned, the rays which lit the nearer tracts of landscape streaming visibly across those further off; a stratum of ensaffroned light was imposed on a stratum of deep blue, and behind these lay still remoter scenes wrapped in frigid grey.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 2 The People at Blooms-End Make Ready
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