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1  "I have been walking," she observed.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
2  I can see a fellow of some sort walking round it.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
3  Even if he had been walking within twenty yards of her she could not have seen him.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
4  He was now again in front of the carriage, which presently came up at a walking pace.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
5  He was, indeed, walking with a will over the furze, as straight as a line, as if his life depended upon it.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
6  The fifth sally was in the afternoon; it was fine, and she remained out long, walking to the very top of the valley in which Blooms-End lay.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
7  Half-an-hour of walking and talking brought them to the spot in the valley where the grass riband widened and led down to the front of the house.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight
8  They were walking slowly; and though it was too dark for much discovery of character from aspect, the gait of them showed that they were not workers on the heath.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
9  I was sitting on the churchyard wall when they came up, one from one way, the other from the other; and Miss Vye was walking thereabouts, looking at the headstones.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart
10  In his hand was a silver-headed walking stick, which he used as a veritable third leg, perseveringly dotting the ground with its point at every few inches' interval.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
11  He waited in his customary manner by walking round the enclosure and idling by the pool, for Wildeve was never asked into the house by his proud though condescending mistress.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 11 The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman
12  When Mrs. Yeobright had drawn near to the inn, and was about to enter, she saw a horse and vehicle some two hundred yards beyond it, coming towards her, a man walking alongside with a lantern in his hand.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
13  The arrangement with Wildeve was that he should meet her at the church to guard against any unpleasant curiosity which might have affected them had they been seen walking off together in the usual country way.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart
14  The air with which she looked at the heathmen betokened a certain unconcern at their presence, or at what might be their opinions of her for walking in that lonely spot at such an hour, thus indirectly implying that in some respect or other they were not up to her level.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
15  The reddleman had left Eustacia's presence with desponding views on Thomasin's future happiness; but he was awakened to the fact that one other channel remained untried by seeing, as he followed the way to his van, the form of Mrs. Yeobright slowly walking towards the Quiet Woman.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 11 The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman
16  The young man learnt with added surprise that the date at which he might expect to resume his labours was as uncertain as ever, his eyes being in that peculiar state which, though affording him sight enough for walking about, would not admit of their being strained upon any definite object without incurring the risk of reproducing ophthalmia in its acute form.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
17  But here, away from comparisons, shut in by the stable hills, among which mere walking had the novelty of pageantry, and where any man could imagine himself to be Adam without the least difficulty, they attracted the attention of every bird within eyeshot, every reptile not yet asleep, and set the surrounding rabbits curiously watching from hillocks at a safe distance.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 1 Tidings of the Comer
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