DIGGORY VENN in Classic Quotes

1  Then I saw Diggory Venn, and was glad to get him to take me home.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People

2  A few minutes later Clym came back again, and in his company came Diggory Venn.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart

3  I cannot for my life think who it is that Diggory Venn is so much in love with.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 2 Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road

4  Meanwhile Diggory Venn had returned to his van, where he stood looking thoughtfully into the stove.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness

5  When Diggory Venn had gone quite away, Eustacia walked to the bank and looked down the wild and picturesque vale towards the sun, which was also in the direction of Wildeve's.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion

6  To his astonishment there stood within the room Diggory Venn, no longer a reddleman, but exhibiting the strangely altered hues of an ordinary Christian countenance, white shirt-front, light flowered waistcoat, blue-spotted neckerchief, and bottle-green coat.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward

7  She seemed to feel, after a bare look at Diggory Venn, that the man had come on a strange errand, and that he was not so mean as she had thought him; for her close approach did not cause him to writhe uneasily, or shift his feet, or show any of those little signs which escape an ingenuous rustic at the advent of the uncommon in womankind.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion