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1  "I have been walking," she observed.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
2  "Yes, I had nothing to say," observed Venn.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
3  "I have heard it before," she quietly observed.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
4  He observed that her eyes were brimming with tears.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter
5  "I am thinking of marrying," she then observed blandly.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: 3 The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin
6  "The gentleman looked like winning, as I said," observed the chapman blandly.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
7  "Ah, those little accidents will, of course, sometimes happen, to the luckiest man," he observed.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
8  He looked at her wistfully, then seemed to fall into a reverie, as if he were forgetting what he observed.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
9  Diggory, having returned to the brink of the pool, observed that the small upper hatches or floats were withdrawn.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
10  And it might have been observed that she did not in future walk that way less often from having met Venn there now.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: 2 Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road
11  The lamp placed against the post by Clym still shone across the water, and the reddleman observed something floating motionless.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
12  Almost at the same moment the two watchers observed the form of a small old-fashioned child entering at the open side of the shed.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 8 Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil
13  The distant light which Eustacia had cursorily observed in leaving the house came, as she had divined, from the cottage window of Susan Nunsuch.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
14  A traveller who should walk and observe any of these visitants as Venn observed them now could feel himself to be in direct communication with regions unknown to man.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
15  In her winter dress, as now, she was like the tiger-beetle, which, when observed in dull situations, seems to be of the quietest neutral colour, but under a full illumination blazes with dazzling splendour.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
16  Such a house, small, secluded, and with its windows boarded up, he had casually observed a month earlier, about two miles beyond the village of East Egdon, and six miles distant altogether; and thither he directed his steps today.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
17  The moon had now waxed bright and silvery, but the heath was proof against such illumination, and there was to be observed the striking scene of a dark, rayless tract of country under an atmosphere charged from its zenith to its extremities with whitest light.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
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