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1  The lips frequently parted, with a murmur of words.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
2  "'Ye are to declare it, was the parson's words," Fairway continued.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
3  The reddleman looked hopeful; after these words from her his third attempt seemed promising.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
4  Eustacia, though set inwardly pulsing by his words, was equal to her part in such a drama as this.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
5  The soft words, "I hear; wait for me," in Eustacia's voice from within told him that she was alone.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 11 The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman
6  You have said as much before, sweet; but such natures as yours don't so easily adhere to their words.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
7  Don't begin speaking to me as you did, Damon; you will drive me to say words I would not wish to say to you.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
8  The words were not without emotion, and retained their level tone as if by a careful equipoise between imminent extremes.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
9  She vented petulant words every now and then, but there were sighs between her words, and sudden listenings between her sighs.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
10  But it was not to the words that Eustacia listened; she could not even have recalled, a few minutes later, what the words were.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
11  And after a few further words they parted, the reddleman moving onwards with his van, and the two women remaining standing in the road.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
12  As Eustacia uttered the latter words she retired from the base of the barrow, and Wildeve followed her, so that the reddleman could hear no more.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
13  She looked wistfully at him with her sorrowful eyes as he said those words, and her aspect showed that more than one person in the room could deplore the possession of sensitiveness.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
14  But the effect of coming into society and light after lonely wandering in darkness is a sociability in the comer above its usual pitch, expressed in the features even more than in words.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
15  "After that Mis'ess Yeobright came round and was quite agreeable," Fairway resumed, with an unheeding air, to show that his words were no appendage to Humphrey's, but the result of independent reflection.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
16  The words of Sam and Humphrey on the harmony between the unknown and herself had on her mind the effect of the invading Bard's prelude in the Castle of Indolence, at which myriads of imprisoned shapes arose where had previously appeared the stillness of a void.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 1 Tidings of the Comer
17  But the next moment a strawmote would have knocked me down, for I called to mind that if thy father and mother had had high words once, they'd been at it twenty times since they'd been man and wife, and I zid myself as the next poor stunpoll to get into the same mess.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
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