1 "And he would hardly afford good fuel like that," said the wide woman.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 2 "'Tis a serious job to have things happen to 'ee there," said a woman behind.'
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 3 "A hundred maidens would have had him if he'd asked 'em," said the wide woman.'
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 4 Very well; then I will be the miserablest woman in the world, and not let him see me again.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People 5 Tis against my conscience to curse and swear in company, and I hope any woman here will overlook it.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 6 The movement had been sufficient to show more clearly the characteristics of the figure, and that it was a woman's.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 7 Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People 8 She was a woman of middle-age, with well-formed features of the type usually found where perspicacity is the chief quality enthroned within.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 9 Had the reddleman been watching he might have recognized her as the woman who had first stood there so singularly, and vanished at the approach of strangers.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 10 We have been told what happens when a woman deliberates; and the epigram is not always terminable with woman, provided that one be in the case, and that a fair one.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People 11 "Supposing they were ashamed, I don't see why they shouldn't have done it here-right," said a wide-spread woman whose stays creaked like shoes whenever she stooped or turned.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 12 "Well, I can't understand a quiet ladylike little body like Tamsin Yeobright caring to be married in such a mean way," said Susan Nunsuch, the wide woman, who preferred the original subject.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 13 Mother know'd 'twas no moon, for she asked another woman that had an almanac, as she did whenever a boy was born to her, because of the saying, 'No moon, no man,' which made her afeard every man-child she had.'
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 14 In it lay what may be called the linguistic peculiarity of the heath; and being audible nowhere on earth off a heath, it afforded a shadow of reason for the woman's tenseness, which continued as unbroken as ever.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 15 Couldst sign the book, no doubt," said Fairway, "if wast young enough to join hands with a woman again, like Wildeve and Mis'ess Tamsin, which is more than Humph there could do, for he follows his father in learning.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 16 The only intelligible meaning in this sky-backed pantomime of silhouettes was that the woman had no relation to the forms who had taken her place, was sedulously avoiding these, and had come thither for another object than theirs.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 17 She was a woman noisily constructed; in addition to her enclosing framework of whalebone and lath, she wore pattens summer and winter, in wet weather and in dry, to preserve her boots from wear; and when Fairway began to jump about with her, the clicking of the pattens, the creaking of the stays, and her screams of surprise, formed a very audible concert.
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