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1  Now then, neighbours, I think we have laid on enough wax.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
2  Yes, neighbours, though I was in the temple of prayer that's what I said.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
3  I hardly blame Thomasin Yeobright and neighbour Wildeve for doing it quiet, if I must own it.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
4  She's asked the plain neighbours and workpeople without drawing any lines, just to give 'em a good supper and such like.'
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight
5  'Tis well to call the neighbours together and to hae a good racket once now and then; and it may as well be when there's a wedding as at tide-times.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
6  At the death of his father a neighbouring gentleman had kindly undertaken to give the boy a start, and this assumed the form of sending him to Budmouth.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
7  Had a looker-on been posted in the immediate vicinity of the barrow, he would have learned that these persons were boys and men of the neighbouring hamlets.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
8  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
9  In a neighbouring brake a finch was trying to sing; but the wind blew under his feathers till they stood on end, twisted round his little tail, and made him give up his song.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
10  No sooner was Andrey asleep and the first whiff of neighbour Yeobright's wind had got inside Andrey's clarinet than everyone in church feeled in a moment there was a great soul among 'em.'
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
11  Some of the neighbouring girls wore coloured ribbon for the same purpose, and sported metallic ornaments elsewhere; but if anyone suggested coloured ribbon and metallic ornaments to Eustacia Vye she laughed and went on.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
12  Images of a future never to be enjoyed, the revived sense of her bitter disappointment, the picture of the neighbour's suspended ridicule which was raised by Wildeve's words, had been too much for proud Eustacia's equanimity.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
13  A bed was made up for him in the same house by a neighbour, that he might not have to return again the next day; and when he retired to rest in the deserted place it was only to remain awake hour after hour thinking the same thoughts.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
14  They were the only genteel people of the district except the Yeobrights, and though far from rich, they did not feel that necessity for preserving a friendly face towards every man, bird, and beast which influenced their poorer neighbours.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
15  Rain, snow, ice, mud everywhere around, they did not care to trudge two or three miles to sit wet-footed and splashed to the nape of their necks among those who, though in some measure neighbours, lived close to the church, and entered it clean and dry.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
16  Anybody who had passed through Blooms-End about eleven o'clock on the morning fixed for the wedding would have found that, while Yeobright's house was comparatively quiet, sounds denoting great activity came from the dwelling of his nearest neighbour, Timothy Fairway.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
17  These Sunday-morning hair-cuttings were performed by Fairway; the victim sitting on a chopping-block in front of the house, without a coat, and the neighbours gossiping around, idly observing the locks of hair as they rose upon the wind after the snip, and flew away out of sight to the four quarters of the heavens.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
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