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1 She heard a pleasant voice in every breeze, and in every bird's note seemed to lurk a joy.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVI
2 He was in his shirt and trousers only, and her first flush of joy died when she perceived that his eyes were fixed in an unnatural stare on vacancy.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVII
3 The letter began by expressing the writer's unfeigned joy at d'Urberville's conversion, and thanked him for his kindness in communicating with the parson on the subject.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLV
4 Having seen that it was really her lover who had advanced, and no one else, her lips parted, and she sank upon him in her momentary joy, with something very like an ecstatic cry.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXIV
5 The "appetite for joy" which pervades all creation, that tremendous force which sways humanity to its purpose, as the tide sways the helpless weed, was not to be controlled by vague lucubrations over the social rubric.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXX
6 Here Tess flung herself down upon the rustling undergrowth of spear-grass, as upon a bed, and remained crouching in palpitating misery broken by momentary shoots of joy, which her fears about the ending could not altogether suppress.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVIII
7 Tess had nothing to say against the proposal, and the next she heard of this plan for importing old Talbothays' joys was two or three days later, when Marian informed her that Izz had replied to her inquiry, and had promised to come if she could.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLIII
8 Their route lay near the dairy from which they had started with such solemn joy in each other a few days back, and as Clare wished to wind up his business with Mr Crick, Tess could hardly avoid paying Mrs Crick a call at the same time, unless she would excite suspicion of their unhappy state.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVII