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1 It would have been a charity to the living had the river overwhelmed me and borne her up.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
2 The sea changed, the fields changed, the rivers, the villages, and the people changed, yet Egdon remained.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
3 The doctor had her put between blankets, for she was almost as wet as they that had been in the river, poor young thing.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
4 Otherwise the situation was quite open, commanding the whole length of the valley which reached to the river behind Wildeve's house.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
5 He got upon the plank bridge over the race, and holding to the rail, that the wind might not blow him off, crossed to the other side of the river.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
6 They had not been near enough to the river to hear the plunge, but they saw the removal of the carriage lamp, and watched its motion into the mead.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
7 Only one sound rose above this din of weather, and that was the roaring of a ten-hatch weir to the southward, from a river in the meads which formed the boundary of the heath in this direction.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together