1 The July sun shone over Egdon and fired its crimson heather to scarlet.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 1 The Rencounter by the Pool 2 The moonlight shone directly upon Venn's face as he spoke, and revealed all its lines to Eustacia.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 3 The light which shone forth on him from the window revealed that his face was flushed and his eye bright.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama 4 Eustacia started when the lamp shone upon him, and Clym's arm was involuntarily withdrawn from her waist.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current 5 The flames from funeral piles long ago kindled there had shone down upon the lowlands as these were shining now.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 6 The lamp placed against the post by Clym still shone across the water, and the reddleman observed something floating motionless.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together 7 As is usual with bright natures, the deity that lies ignominiously chained within an ephemeral human carcase shone out of him like a ray.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face 8 He had come forward after throwing the last pebble, and the fire now shone into each of their faces from the bank stretching breast-high between them.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated 9 The grass under their feet became trodden away, and the hard, beaten surface of the sod, when viewed aslant towards the moonlight, shone like a polished table.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 10 All dark objects on the earth that lay towards the sun were overspread by a purple haze, against which groups of wailing gnats shone out, rising upwards and dancing about like sparks of fire.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues 11 The window, whence the candlelight had shone up the vale to the eyes of the bonfire group, was uncurtained, but the sill lay too high for a pedestrian on the outside to look over it into the room.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People 12 In sticking up the candle he lifted the lantern to his face, and the light shone into the whites of his eyes and upon his ivory teeth, which, in contrast with the red surrounding, lent him a startling aspect enough to the gaze of a juvenile.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody 13 At each brushing of Clym's feet white millermoths flew into the air just high enough to catch upon their dusty wings the mellowed light from the west, which now shone across the depressions and levels of the ground without falling thereon to light them up.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends 14 The loft was lighted by a semicircular hole, through which the pigeons crept to their lodgings in the same high quarters of the premises; and from this hole the sun shone in a bright yellow patch upon the figure of the maiden as she knelt and plunged her naked arms into the soft brown fern, which, from its abundance, was used on Egdon in packing away stores of all kinds.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 2 The People at Blooms-End Make Ready