1 It is an awkward meeting," said she; "but such is my fortune.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 2 "If we should lose the path it might be awkward," said Christian.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day 3 It may have been the fault of the circumstances, which were awkward at the very least.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song 4 The fact was that Yeobright's fame had spread to an awkward extent before he left home.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is" 5 "You are in the awkward position of an official who is no longer wanted," she said in a changed tone.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 11 The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman 6 That this way was, of all others, the most distressing to himself, was awkward enough; but the reddleman's love was generous.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 7 The hour chosen for the ceremony by Thomasin and Wildeve had been so timed as to enable her to escape the awkwardness of meeting her cousin Clym, who was returning the same morning.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart 8 Tribes of emerald-green grasshoppers leaped over his feet, falling awkwardly on their backs, heads, or hips, like unskilful acrobats, as chance might rule; or engaged themselves in noisy flirtations under the fern-fronds with silent ones of homely hue.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song 9 Mrs. Yeobright was vexed at this, having reckoned on finding her son and his wife by themselves; but a moment's thought showed her that the presence of an acquaintance would take off the awkwardness of her first appearance in the house, by confining the talk to general matters until she had begun to feel comfortable with them.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 5 The Journey across the Heath 10 The silence conveyed to neither any sense of awkwardness; in these lonely places wayfarers, after a first greeting, frequently plod on for miles without speech; contiguity amounts to a tacit conversation where, otherwise than in cities, such contiguity can be put an end to on the merest inclination, and where not to put an end to it is intercourse in itself.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble