1 He pulled off a light overcoat that he had worn, and put it round her tenderly.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: XI 2 Her face was dry and pale, as though she regarded herself in the light of a murderess.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 3 It was a three-mile walk, along a dry white road, made whiter to-night by the light of the moon.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: X 4 Angel, however, saw her light summer gown, and he spoke; his low tones reaching her, though he was some distance off.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XIX 5 A week afterwards she came in one evening from an unavailing search for some light occupation in the immediate neighbourhood.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 6 With the setting of the moon the pale light lessened, and Tess became invisible as she fell into reverie upon the leaves where he had left her.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: XI 7 Her gown was a light cotton print, and from the back of her head a kind of rope could be seen descending to some distance below her waist, like a Chinaman's queue.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: X 8 Stoke d'Urberville took her back to the lawn and into the tent, where he left her, soon reappearing with a basket of light luncheon, which he put before her himself.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: V 9 He had not put himself forward into the light, but some of them had perceived him, and his presence led to a slight pause and a consideration of how the time was flying.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: X 10 The light which still shone was derived mainly from a large hole in the western bank of cloud; it was like a piece of day left behind by accident, dusk having closed in elsewhere.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XIX 11 Either the change in the quality of the air from heavy to light, or the sense of being amid new scenes where there were no invidious eyes upon her, sent up her spirits wonderfully.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVI 12 Her ascent of the crooked staircase was a slower process, and her face, as it rose into the light above the last stair, encountered the gaze of all the party assembled in the bedroom.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 13 In a sitting-room on the ground-floor, ensconced in an armchair with her back to the light, was the owner and mistress of the estate, a white-haired woman of not more than sixty, or even less, wearing a large cap.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IX 14 His light, a little later, broke though chinks of cottage shutters, throwing stripes like red-hot pokers upon cupboards, chests of drawers, and other furniture within; and awakening harvesters who were not already astir.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 15 She knew how to hit to a hair's-breadth that moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the constraint of day and the suspense of night neutralize each other, leaving absolute mental liberty.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIII 16 The light from the long, wide, mullioned window opposite shone in upon his nook, and, assisted by a secondary light of cold blue quality which shone down the chimney, enabled him to read there easily whenever disposed to do so.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVIII 17 Then these children of the open air, whom even excess of alcohol could scarce injure permanently, betook themselves to the field-path; and as they went there moved onward with them, around the shadow of each one's head, a circle of opalized light, formed by the moon's rays upon the glistening sheet of dew.
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