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1  The lips frequently parted, with a murmur of words.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
2  In a moment the figure was in his arms, and his lips upon hers.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
3  Her lips were parted and she appeared for the moment to forget where she was.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
4  That consisted of two matchless lips and a cheek only, her head being still enveloped.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
5  What it did not show was something which lingered upon his lips like a seal set there.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
6  So fine were the lines of her lips that, though full, each corner of her mouth was as clearly cut as the point of a spear.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
7  His lips were thin, and though, as it seemed, compressed by thought, there was a pleasant twitch at their corners now and then.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
8  But she had asked no question with her lips, even when the arrival of his trunk suggested that he was not going to leave her soon.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
9  It was felt at once that the mouth did not come over from Sleswig with a band of Saxon pirates whose lips met like the two halves of a muffin.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
10  His mother parted her lips to begin some other vehement truth, but on looking at him she saw that in his face which led her to leave the words unsaid.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
11  He came into the room and nodded abstractedly to Wildeve, his lips still parted, and his features excruciatingly strained in the emission of the chorus.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
12  He looked wistfully to the top of the bank at the woman who stood there, and his teeth, which were quite unimpaired, showed like parian from his parted lips.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
13  Viewed sideways, the closing-line of her lips formed, with almost geometric precision, the curve so well known in the arts of design as the cima-recta, or ogee.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
14  The speaker looked round upon the bystanders, now drawing closer to hear him, with his lips gathered tighter than ever in the rigorousness of his descriptive moderation.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
15  The scarlet of her lips had not had time to abate, and just now it appeared still more intense by the absence of the neighbouring and more transient colour of her cheek.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
16  Her lips were quivering, and tears so crowded themselves into her eyes that she could hardly distinguish apples from fern as she continued industriously searching to hide her weakness.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 2 The People at Blooms-End Make Ready
17  The lips then parted with something of anticipation, something more of doubt; and her several thoughts and fractions of thoughts, as signalled by the changes on her face, were exhibited by the light to the utmost nicety.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
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