1 At two o'clock there was nothing left to do but to start.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXIII 2 At six o'clock the wheat-rick was about shoulder-high from the ground.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLVIII 3 Conjecture was useless, and just after twelve o'clock he entered and went to bed.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LV 4 He unbridled and fed his horse, and as he re-entered the house the clock struck three.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVII 5 Digging began usually at six o'clock and extended indefinitely into the dusk or moonlight.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: L 6 At four o'clock that Sunday morning she came downstairs and stepped out into the starlight.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLIV 7 It was not till "nammet"-time, about three o'clock, that Tess raised her eyes and gave a momentary glance round.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLVIII 8 Not long after one o'clock there was a slight creak in the darkened farmhouse once the mansion of the d'Urbervilles.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVII 9 She plunged into the chilly equinoctial darkness as the clock struck ten, for her fifteen miles' walk under the steely stars.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: L 10 She had walked more than a dozen miles the previous evening, had gone to bed at midnight, and had risen again at five o'clock.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLIII 11 The clock struck the solemn hour of one, that hour when fancy stalks outside reason, and malignant possibilities stand rock-firm as facts.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 12 When two o'clock arrived the professional reed-drawers tossed off the last half-pint in their flagon, put down their hooks, tied their last sheaves, and went away.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLIII 13 At eleven o'clock that night, having secured a bed at one of the hotels and telegraphed his address to his father immediately on his arrival, he walked out into the streets of Sandbourne.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LV 14 At Shaston, however, he found he must hire; but the way was such that he did not enter Joan's place till about seven o'clock in the evening, having traversed a distance of over twenty miles since leaving Marlott.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LIV 15 The three o'clock sun shone full upon him, and the strange enervating conviction that her seducer confronted her, which had been gaining ground in Tess ever since she had heard his words distinctly, was at last established as a fact indeed.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLIV 16 That this might be accomplished within the day was the explanation of the reverberation occurring so soon after midnight, the aim of the carters being to reach the door of the outgoing households by six o'clock, when the loading of their movables at once began.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: LII 17 It was eleven o'clock before the family were all in bed, and two o'clock next morning was the latest hour for starting with the beehives if they were to be delivered to the retailers in Casterbridge before the Saturday market began, the way thither lying by bad roads over a distance of between twenty and thirty miles, and the horse and waggon being of the slowest.
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