1 "Only the wind," said the turf-cutter.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 2 The wind, indeed, seemed made for the scene, as the scene seemed made for the hour.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 3 Then Egdon was aroused to reciprocity; for the storm was its lover, and the wind its friend.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression 4 I'm as dry as a kex with biding up here in the wind, and I haven't seen the colour of drink since nammet-time today.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 5 Their presence was denoted by sounds as of a congregation praying humbly, produced by their rubbing against each other in the slow wind.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People 6 It might reasonably have been supposed that she was listening to the wind, which rose somewhat as the night advanced, and laid hold of the attention.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 7 It was to the full as lonely a place as Rainbarrow, though at rather a lower level; and it was more sheltered from wind and weather on account of the few firs to the north.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 8 No sooner was Andrey asleep and the first whiff of neighbour Yeobright's wind had got inside Andrey's clarinet than everyone in church feeled in a moment there was a great soul among 'em.'
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People 9 The wind blew the smoke, and the child's hair, and the corner of his pinafore, all in the same direction; the breeze died, and the pinafore and hair lay still, and the smoke went up straight.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 10 There were no sounds but that of the booming wind upon the stretch of tawny herbage around them, the crackling wheels, the tread of the men, and the footsteps of the two shaggy ponies which drew the van.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 11 One inwardly saw the infinity of those combined multitudes; and perceived that each of the tiny trumpets was seized on entered, scoured and emerged from by the wind as thoroughly as if it were as vast as a crater.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 12 Her back was towards the wind, which blew from the northwest; but whether she had avoided that aspect because of the chilly gusts which played about her exceptional position, or because her interest lay in the southeast, did not at first appear.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 13 Then the whole black phenomenon beneath represented Limbo as viewed from the brink by the sublime Florentine in his vision, and the muttered articulations of the wind in the hollows were as complaints and petitions from the "souls of mighty worth" suspended therein.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 14 Every now and then a long low note from the serpent, which was the chief wind instrument played at these times, advanced further into the heath than the thin treble part, and reached their ears alone; and next a more than usual loud tread from a dancer would come the same way.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight 15 He had occupied his time in moving with his ponies and load to a new point in the heath, eastward to his previous station; and here he selected a nook with a careful eye to shelter from wind and rain, which seemed to mean that his stay there was to be a comparatively extended one.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 16 These Sunday-morning hair-cuttings were performed by Fairway; the victim sitting on a chopping-block in front of the house, without a coat, and the neighbours gossiping around, idly observing the locks of hair as they rose upon the wind after the snip, and flew away out of sight to the four quarters of the heavens.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is" 17 The bank which enclosed the homestead, and protected it from the lawless state of the world without, was formed of thick square clods, dug from the ditch on the outside, and built up with a slight batter or incline, which forms no slight defense where hedges will not grow because of the wind and the wilderness, and where wall materials are unattainable.
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