1 He met her at the bottom of the stairs and kissed her.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXIII 2 Hearing a footstep below, he rose and went to the top of the stairs.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XL 3 As they retreated to the milk-house Deborah Fyander appeared on the stairs.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVII 4 The creak of the loose stair did not awaken him, and they reached the ground-floor safely.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVII 5 When the carriage was gone they ascended the stairs to wash their hands, the charwoman showing the way.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXIV 6 Mrs Brooks, thinking that the speaker was coming to rush out of the door, hastily retreated down the stairs.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LVI 7 She heard Tess re-ascend the stairs to the first floor, and the departure of Clare, and the closing of the front door behind him.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LVI 8 Soon his sharpened ear detected footsteps upon the stairs, at which his heart thumped so painfully that he could hardly stand firm.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LV 9 Three was the afternoon skimming-hour; and, with the stroke, Clare heard the creaking of the floor-boards above, and then the touch of a descending foot on the stairs.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVII 10 Her ascent of the crooked staircase was a slower process, and her face, as it rose into the light above the last stair, encountered the gaze of all the party assembled in the bedroom.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 11 She had run up in her bedgown to his door to call him as usual; then had gone back to dress and call the others; and in ten minutes was walking to the head of the stairs with the candle in her hand.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXIX 12 She heard Jonathan Kail's heavy footsteps up and down the stairs till he had done placing the luggage, and heard him express his thanks for the ale her husband took out to him, and for the gratuity he received.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXIV 13 She opened the door so softly as to disturb nobody; the lower room was vacant, but the neighbour who was sitting up with her mother came to the top of the stairs, and whispered that Mrs Durbeyfield was no better, though she was sleeping just then.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: L 14 There had not at first been time for her to think of the changed relations which his declaration had introduced; but the full sense of the matter rose up in her face when she encountered Clare's tender look as he stepped forward to the bottom stair.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVII 15 Even to her mother's gaze the girl's young features looked sadly out of place amid the alcoholic vapours which floated here as no unsuitable medium for wrinkled middle-age; and hardly was a reproachful flash from Tess's dark eyes needed to make her father and mother rise from their seats, hastily finish their ale, and descend the stairs behind her, Mrs Rolliver's caution following their footsteps.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV