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1  "But do let her go, Jacky," coaxed his poor witless wife.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: VI
2  The groan had proceeded from her father's poor horse Prince.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: IV
3  Car's poor old grandmother had a weakness for the sweet stuff.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: X
4  He'll adorn it better than a poor lammicken feller like myself can.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: VII
5  The only pain to me was pain on his account, poor, foolish young man.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVI
6  My mother too, poor soul, will think so much better of you on account of it.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 4 The Consequence: XXX
7  But her poor foolish mother little knew her present feeling towards this man.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2 Maiden No More: XII
8  But Tess's pride made the part of poor relation one of particular distaste to her.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: V
9  Well, Mr Clare found this out, and spoke quite scornful to the poor girl for days.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 3 The Rally: XIX
10  The poor child, torn by a feeling which she hardly understood, turned to the other two girls who came upstairs just then.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 3 The Rally: XXIII
11  "The poor man can't go," she said to her eldest daughter, whose great eyes had opened the moment her mother's hand touched the door.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: IV
12  To speak absolutely, both instrument and execution were poor; but the relative is all, and as she listened Tess, like a fascinated bird, could not leave the spot.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 3 The Rally: XIX
13  He told of wondrous conversions of evil livers of which he had been the instrument, not only amongst the poor, but amongst the rich and well-to-do; and he also candidly admitted many failures.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVI
14  The same unworldliness was what had necessitated Angel's getting a living as a farmer, and would probably keep his brothers in the position of poor parsons for the term of their activities; yet Angel admired it none the less.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVI
15  The poor creature looked wonderingly round at the night, at the lantern, at their two figures, as if he could not believe that at that hour, when every living thing was intended to be in shelter and at rest, he was called upon to go out and labour.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: IV
16  They reached the feeble light, which came from the smoky lamp of a little railway station; a poor enough terrestrial star, yet in one sense of more importance to Talbothays Dairy and mankind than the celestial ones to which it stood in such humiliating contrast.
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17  He was the youngest son of his father, a poor parson at the other end of the county, and had arrived at Talbothays Dairy as a six months' pupil, after going the round of some other farms, his object being to acquire a practical skill in the various processes of farming, with a view either to the Colonies or the tenure of a home-farm, as circumstances might decide.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 3 The Rally: XVIII
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