1 Nobody except himself came near the spot that night.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 2 Then I wish you good night without caring for either.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 3 It was as if the night sang dirges with clenched teeth.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 4 I don't think Fifth-of-Novembers ought to be kept up by night except in towns.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 5 "I was at the meeting by Rainbarrow last night and heard every word," he said.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 6 It seemed a sort of last man among them, musing for a moment before dropping into eternal night with the rest of his race.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 7 I met Mis'ess Yeobright, the young bride's aunt, last night, and she told me that her son Clym was coming home a Christmas.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 8 The reddleman watched his form as it diminished to a speck on the road and became absorbed in the thickening films of night.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 9 Thus the night revealed little of her whose form it was embracing, for the mobile parts of her countenance could not be seen.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 10 Her extraordinary fixity, her conspicuous loneliness, her heedlessness of night, betokened among other things an utter absence of fear.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 11 It might reasonably have been supposed that she was listening to the wind, which rose somewhat as the night advanced, and laid hold of the attention.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 12 The spot was, indeed, a near relation of night, and when night showed itself an apparent tendency to gravitate together could be perceived in its shades and the scene.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression 13 Suddenly, on the barrow, there mingled with all this wild rhetoric of night a sound which modulated so naturally into the rest that its beginning and ending were hardly to be distinguished.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 14 She could never have believed in the morning that her colourless inner world would before night become as animated as water under a microscope, and that without the arrival of a single visitor.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 1 Tidings of the Comer 15 There she stood still around her stretching the vast night atmosphere, whose incomplete darkness in comparison with the total darkness of the heath below it might have represented a venial beside a mortal sin.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 16 In such contrast the heath wore the appearance of an instalment of night which had taken up its place before its astronomical hour was come: darkness had to a great extent arrived hereon, while day stood distinct in the sky.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression 17 A cream-coloured courser had used to visit this hill, a bird so rare that not more than a dozen have ever been seen in England; but a barbarian rested neither night nor day till he had shot the African truant, and after that event cream-coloured coursers thought fit to enter Egdon no more.
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