1 Seeing nothing of human life now, she imagined all the more of what she had seen.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night 2 In its venerable one coat lay a certain vein of satire on human vanity in clothes.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression 3 There no dense partition of yawns and toilets divides humanity by night from humanity by day.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding 4 By degrees they discerned coming towards them a pair of human figures, apparently of the male sex.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 5 We seem to want the oldest and simplest human clothing where the clothing of the earth is so primitive.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression 6 She dreamt a dream; and few human beings, from Nebuchadnezzar to the Swaffham tinker, ever dreamt a more remarkable one.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream 7 As is usual with bright natures, the deity that lies ignominiously chained within an ephemeral human carcase shone out of him like a ray.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face 8 The vision of what ought to have been is thrown aside in sheer weariness, and browbeaten human endeavour listlessly makes the best of the fact that is.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day 9 Throughout the blowing of these plaintive November winds that note bore a great resemblance to the ruins of human song which remain to the throat of fourscore and ten.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 10 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 HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 11 He had reached the stage in a young man's life when the grimness of the general human situation first becomes clear; and the realization of this causes ambition to halt awhile.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama 12 To argue upon the possibility of culture before luxury to the bucolic world may be to argue truly, but it is an attempt to disturb a sequence to which humanity has been long accustomed.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment 13 The new Vale of Tempe may be a gaunt waste in Thule; human souls may find themselves in closer and closer harmony with external things wearing a sombreness distasteful to our race when it was young.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression 14 To dissipate in some trifling measure her abiding sense of the murkiness of human life she went to the "linhay" or lean-to shed, which formed the root-store of their dwelling and abutted on the fuelhouse.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure 15 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 HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 16 Anyone who had stood by now would have pitied her, not so much on account of her exposure to weather, and isolation from all of humanity except the mouldered remains inside the tumulus; but for that other form of misery which was denoted by the slightly rocking movement that her feelings imparted to her person.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November 17 His eyes had first opened thereon; with its appearance all the first images of his memory were mingled, his estimate of life had been coloured by it: his toys had been the flint knives and arrow-heads which he found there, wondering why stones should "grow" to such odd shapes; his flowers, the purple bells and yellow furze: his animal kingdom, the snakes and croppers; his society, its human haunters.
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