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1 It is you, my ruined husband, who ought to strike the blow.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVI
2 He has come between us and ruined us, and now he can never do it any more.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LVII
3 The house was overrun with ivy, its chimney being enlarged by the boughs of the parasite to the aspect of a ruined tower.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IX
4 Here they were within a plantation which formed the Abbey grounds, and taking a new hold of her he went onward a few steps till they reached the ruined choir of the Abbey-church.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVII
5 They spend lots o money in keeping up old ruins, and finding the bones o things, and such like; and living remains must be more interesting to em still, if they only knowed of me.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: L
6 They had rambled round by a road which led to the well-known ruins of the Cistercian abbey behind the mill, the latter having, in centuries past, been attached to the monastic establishment.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXV
7 In the small hours she whispered to him the whole story of how he had walked in his sleep with her in his arms across the Froom stream, at the imminent risk of both their lives, and laid her down in the stone coffin at the ruined abbey.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LVIII
8 But the very shiftlessness of the household rendered the misfortune a less terrifying one to them than it would have been to a thriving family, though in the present case it meant ruin, and in the other it would only have meant inconvenience.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV
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'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIII