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1  Nothing was seen of him for four hours.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward
2  I've been home these two hours, and am tired out.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
3  With this view he read far into the small hours during many nights.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
4  He played on for twenty-four hours, and won ten thousand pounds, stripping the bank he had played against.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
5  Yeobright remained in his study, sitting over the open books; but the work of those hours was miserably scant.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
6  Four hours after the present time, that is, at midnight, he was to be ready to drive her to Budmouth, as prearranged.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
7  He kissed her cheek, and departed in great misery, which was several hours in lessening itself to a controllable level.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
8  A barrow was opened on the heath, and Yeobright attended the operation, remaining away from his study during several hours.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
9  It was the place at which, four hours earlier, his mother had sat down exhausted on the knoll covered with shepherd's-thyme.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
10  She had entered the dance from the troubled hours of her late life as one might enter a brilliant chamber after a night walk in a wood.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
11  He entered this movable home of his, lit his lantern, and, before closing his door for the night, stood reflecting on the circumstances of the preceding hours.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
12  To be left to pass the evening by herself was irksome to her at any time, and this evening it was more irksome than usual by reason of the excitements of the past hours.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 8 Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil
13  It could best be felt when it could not clearly be seen, its complete effect and explanation lying in this and the succeeding hours before the next dawn; then, and only then, did it tell its true tale.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
14  The result of that unpropitious interview was that Eustacia, instead of passing the afternoon with her grandfather, hastily returned home to Clym, where she arrived three hours earlier than she had been expected.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
15  In two hours she reached a slope about three-fourths the whole distance from Alderworth to her own home, where a little patch of shepherd's-thyme intruded upon the path; and she sat down upon the perfumed mat it formed there.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
16  How she managed to work hard, and yet do no more than she had done at the end of two hours, would have been a mystery to anyone not aware that the recent incident was of a kind likely to divert her industry from a manual to a mental channel.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: 2 Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road
17  During the momentary interval that elapsed before he became conscious that something must be done all sense of time and place left him, and it seemed as if he and his mother were as when he was a child with her many years ago on this heath at hours similar to the present.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
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