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1 No doubt he has been to sea in some tub or other.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
2 The great inviolate place had an ancient permanence which the sea cannot claim.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
3 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
4 My uncle has been for five and twenty years the trusty man of a rich widow-lady who has a beautiful house facing the sea.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
5 Hardly a maternal heart within the four seas could in such circumstances, have helped being irritated at that ill-timed betrayal of feeling for a new woman.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
6 When the reddleman entered the garden the old man was looking through his glass at the stain of blue sea in the distant landscape, the little anchors on his buttons twinkling in the sun.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
7 Her presence brought memories of such things as Bourbon roses, rubies, and tropical midnight; her moods recalled lotus-eaters and the march in Athalie; her motions, the ebb and flow of the sea; her voice, the viola.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
8 The time seems near, if it has not actually arrived, when the chastened sublimity of a moor, a sea, or a mountain will be all of nature that is absolutely in keeping with the moods of the more thinking among mankind.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression