1 And this is not naming the songs you've got to sing.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 2 Of course not; no, it is that the heath-folk have come to sing to us a welcome.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People 3 There fell upon their ears the sound of numerous voices singing in front of the house.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People 4 It is easier to say you will sing than to do it; though if I could I would encourage you in your attempt.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian 5 Even had you felt careless about your own affliction, you might have refrained from singing out of sheer pity for mine.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song 6 Immediately outside, in the passage, appeared Grandfer Cantle singing in concert with those still standing in front of the house.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People 7 In a neighbouring brake a finch was trying to sing; but the wind blew under his feathers till they stood on end, twisted round his little tail, and made him give up his song.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete 8 But on Saturday nights she would frequently sing a psalm, and it was always on a weekday that she read the Bible, that she might be unoppressed with a sense of doing her duty.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night 9 He ran until he was out of breath, and then, becoming more courageous, walked leisurely along, singing in an old voice a little song about a sailor-boy and a fair one, and bright gold in store.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody 10 This lady has become old and lame, and she wants a young company-keeper to read and sing to her, but can't get one to her mind to save her life, though she've advertised in the papers, and tried half a dozen.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 11 To see him there, a poor afflicted man, earning money by the sweat of his brow, had at first moved her to tears; but to hear him sing and not at all rebel against an occupation which, however satisfactory to himself, was degrading to her, as an educated lady-wife, wounded her through.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song 12 As with Farinelli's singing before the princesses, Sheridan's renowned Begum Speech, and other such examples, the fortunate condition of its being for ever lost to the world invested the deceased Mr. Yeobright's tour de force on that memorable afternoon with a cumulative glory which comparative criticism, had that been possible, might considerably have shorn down.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People