1 So the reserve went off, and they were confiding and warm.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXIII 2 Beneath it was something educated, reserved, subtle, sad, differing.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVII 3 She attempted to look reserved; her face put on a sculptural severity.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IX 4 It caused her to break the reserve about their future which had hitherto prevailed.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVI 5 Recovering her reserve, she sat without replying, and thus they reached the summit of another declivity.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VIII 6 A little way off there was another indistinct figure; this one black, with a sustained hiss that spoke of strength very much in reserve.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLVII 7 Angel, there is no irritation in my mind or your father's against you for this marriage; but we have thought it much better to reserve our liking for your wife till we could see her.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXIX 8 The band of silver paleness along the east horizon made even the distant parts of the Great Plain appear dark and near; and the whole enormous landscape bore that impress of reserve, taciturnity, and hesitation which is usual just before day.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LVIII 9 But so far was she from being, in the words of Robert South, "in love with her own ruin," that the illusion was transient as lightning; cold reason came back to mock her spasmodic weakness; the ghastliness of her momentary pride would convict her, and recall her to reserved listlessness again.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIII