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1 It was the united products of infinitesimal vegetable causes, and these were neither stems, leaves, fruit, blades, prickles, lichen, nor moss.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
2 The heaven being spread with this pallid screen and the earth with the darkest vegetation, their meeting-line at the horizon was clearly marked.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
3 It was a stagnant, warm, and misty night, full of all the heavy perfumes of new vegetation not yet dried by hot sun, and among these particularly the scent of the fern.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
4 Civilization was its enemy; and ever since the beginning of vegetation its soil had worn the same antique brown dress, the natural and invariable garment of the particular formation.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
5 Amid the soft juicy vegetation of the hollow in which they sat, the motionless and the uninhabited solitude, intruded the chink of guineas, the rattle of dice, the exclamations of the reckless players.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
6 The air was now completely cool; but whenever he passed over a sandy patch of ground uncarpeted with vegetation there was reflected from its surface into his face the heat which it had imbibed during the day.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
7 Occasionally she came to a spot where independent worlds of ephemerons were passing their time in mad carousal, some in the air, some on the hot ground and vegetation, some in the tepid and stringy water of a nearly dried pool.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 5 The Journey across the Heath