1 Yes; a farmer's wife; yes, certainly.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVI 2 "But do let her go, Jacky," coaxed his poor witless wife.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 3 A farm-woman would be the only sensible kind of wife for him.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXI 4 The dairyman removed his hard gaze from Tess, and fixed it on his wife.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVIII 5 "Durbeyfield, you can settle it," said his wife, turning to where he sat in the background.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: V 6 And thus, though Tess kept repeating to herself, "I can never be his wife," the words were vain.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXIX 7 Mr Clare the elder, whose first wife had died and left him a daughter, married a second late in life.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVIII 8 I shall soon want to marry, and, being a farmer, you see I shall require for my wife a woman who knows all about the management of farms.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVII 9 When the hole was ready, Durbeyfield and his wife tied a rope round the horse and dragged him up the path towards it, the children following in funeral train.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 10 If I have a very large farm, either English or colonial, you will be invaluable as a wife to me; better than a woman out of the largest mansion in the country.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXX 11 Tess had moodily decided that either of these maidens would make a good farmer's wife, and that she ought to recommend them, and obscure her own wretched charms.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXII 12 Society is hopelessly snobbish, and this fact of your extraction may make an appreciable difference to its acceptance of you as my wife, after I have made you the well-read woman that I mean to make you.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXX 13 Perhaps he revered his father's practice even more now than ever, seeing that, in the question of making Tessy his wife, his father had not once thought of inquiring whether she were well provided or penniless.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVI 14 The dairyman himself had been lending a hand; but Mr Crick, as well as his wife, seemed latterly to have acquired a suspicion of mutual interest between these two; though they walked so circumspectly that suspicion was but of the faintest.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVIII 15 His father persisted in his conviction that a knowledge of a farmer's wife's duties came second to a Pauline view of humanity; and the impulsive Angel, wishing to honour his father's feelings and to advance the cause of his heart at the same time, grew specious.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVI 16 But he soon preferred to read human nature by taking his meals downstairs in the general dining-kitchen, with the dairyman and his wife, and the maids and men, who all together formed a lively assembly; for though but few milking hands slept in the house, several joined the family at meals.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVIII 17 Dairyman Crick and his wife, the milkmaids Tess, Marian, Retty Priddle, Izz Huett, and the married ones from the cottages; also Mr Clare, Jonathan Kail, old Deborah, and the rest, stood gazing hopelessly at the churn; and the boy who kept the horse going outside put on moon-like eyes to show his sense of the situation.
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