1 But the breeze blew the great sheet out; and over the edge he surveyed the landscape--flowing fields, heath and woods.
2 My dear, it is only a beautiful little heath, which that nice old gardener would make me take; but if it is in your way, I will have it in my lap directly.
3 Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression 4 The sombre stretch of rounds and hollows seemed to rise and meet the evening gloom in pure sympathy, the heath exhaling darkness as rapidly as the heavens precipitated it.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression 5 The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank blooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression 6 A person on a heath in raiment of modern cut and colours has more or less an anomalous look.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression 7 The above-mentioned highway traversed the lower levels of the heath, from one horizon to another.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression 8 It was quite open to the heath on each side, and bisected that vast dark surface like the parting-line on a head of black hair, diminishing and bending away on the furthest horizon.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 9 The scene before the reddleman's eyes was a gradual series of ascents from the level of the road backward into the heart of the heath.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 10 This bossy projection of earth above its natural level occupied the loftiest ground of the loneliest height that the heath contained.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 11 They came from a part of the heath a quarter of a mile to the rear, where furze almost exclusively prevailed as a product.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 12 In the heath's barrenness to the farmer lay its fertility to the historian.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 13 The heath down there was now a vast abyss, and no longer a continuation of what they stood on; for their eyes, adapted to the blaze, could see nothing of the deeps beyond its influence.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 14 "'Tis in the heath, but no furze," said the turf-cutter.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 15 Her face, encompassed by the blackness of the receding heath, showed whitely, and with-out half-lights, like a cameo.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country