1 Eustacia Vye was the raw material of a divinity.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night 2 There was material enough in the picture for twenty new conquests.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 3 Yet, of all the circle, he himself was the only one whose situation had not materially changed.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together 4 At every vacant minute he hastened to gather furze-stumps, thorn-tree roots, and other solid materials from the adjacent slopes, hiding them from cursory view.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated 5 The man took a piece of rag from a satchel containing sewing materials, tore off a strip, which, like everything else, was tinged red, and proceeded to bind up the wound.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody 6 Fires of the last-mentioned materials were rare, and though comparatively small in magnitude beside the transient blazes, now began to get the best of them by mere long continuance.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 7 It was a worn whisper, dry and papery, and it brushed so distinctly across the ear that, by the accustomed, the material minutiae in which it originated could be realized as by touch.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 8 Wildeve was standing with his back to the fireplace smoking a cigar; and the promoter of the raffle, a packman from a distant town, was expatiating upon the value of the fabric as material for a summer dress.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day 9 He could not help feeling that it would be a pitiful waste of sweet material if the tender-natured thing should be doomed from this early stage of her life onwards to dribble away her winsome qualities on lonely gorse and fern.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 6: 3 The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin 10 Attentive observation of their brightness, colour, and length of existence would have revealed the quality of the material burnt, and through that, to some extent the natural produce of the district in which each bonfire was situate.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 11 On the door being opened she perceived at the end of the van an extemporized couch, around which was hung apparently all the drapery that the reddleman possessed, to keep the occupant of the little couch from contact with the red materials of his trade.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road 12 Next came into notice the more material qualities, among which was a profuse crop of hair impending over the top of his face, lending to his forehead the high-cornered outline of an early Gothic shield; and a neck which was smooth and round as a cylinder.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People 13 During the making of the costumes it would come to the knowledge of Joe's sweetheart that Jim's was putting brilliant silk scallops at the bottom of her lover's surcoat, in addition to the ribbons of the visor, the bars of which, being invariably formed of coloured strips about half an inch wide hanging before the face, were mostly of that material.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure 14 The bank which enclosed the homestead, and protected it from the lawless state of the world without, was formed of thick square clods, dug from the ditch on the outside, and built up with a slight batter or incline, which forms no slight defense where hedges will not grow because of the wind and the wilderness, and where wall materials are unattainable.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky