1 The old man knew the meaning of this.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 2 My meaning is just to say how curious I felt.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 3 Then there must have been some meaning in it.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song 4 "That's nearer still to my meaning," he said.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding 5 Well, as that's not my fortune there's no meaning in it to me.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day 6 I have come home; and this is how I mean to carry out my plan.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is" 7 "There, 'tis all gone; and I didn't mean quite all," he said, with a sigh.'
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure 8 Olly Dowden at length understood her meaning, and examined the foot indicated.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends 9 By no stretch of meaning could any but a harmless construction be placed upon a single one of the letters themselves.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 3 Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning 10 She looked up at him as if she did not understand the meaning of his long stay with her; her face had worn that look for several days.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment 11 But whatever the momentary feeling which caused that flush in her, it went as it came, and she humbly said, "I never mean to be, if I can help it."
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People 12 A meaning of the phrase forced itself upon the attention; and an emotional listener's fetichistic mood might have ended in one of more advanced quality.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 13 "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 14 The great reason with my own personal self for not letting you court me is, that I do not feel the things a woman ought to feel who consents to walk with you with the meaning of being your wife.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 15 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 16 He had occupied his time in moving with his ponies and load to a new point in the heath, eastward to his previous station; and here he selected a nook with a careful eye to shelter from wind and rain, which seemed to mean that his stay there was to be a comparatively extended one.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 17 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.
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