1 What arrested him now as of value in life was less its beauty than its pathos.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLIX 2 Her great natural beauty was, if not heightened, rendered more obvious by her attire.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LV 3 Yet it was with this blot, and not with the beauty, that the two gazers were concerned.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LIX 4 Some had beautiful eyes, others a beautiful nose, others a beautiful mouth and figure: few, if any, had all.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 5 The marble hardness left her face, she moved with something of her old bounding step, and flushed in all her young beauty.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIII 6 You can hold your own for beauty against any woman of these parts, gentle or simple; I say it to you as a practical man and well-wisher.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XII 7 She thought every line in the contour of his person the perfection of masculine beauty, his soul the soul of a saint, his intellect that of a seer.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXI 8 Tess paid the penalty of walking about with happiness superadded to beauty on her countenance by being much stared at as she moved amid them on his arm.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXIII 9 It was so far removed from the charm which is sought in landscape by artists and view-lovers as to reach a new kind of beauty, a negative beauty of tragic tone.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLV 10 Her face had latterly changed with changing states of mind, continually fluctuating between beauty and ordinariness, according as the thoughts were gay or grave.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVI 11 When she was pink she was feeling less than when pale; her more perfect beauty accorded with her less elevated mood; her more intense mood with her less perfect beauty.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVI 12 It was a moment when a woman's soul is more incarnate than at any other time; when the most spiritual beauty bespeaks itself flesh; and sex takes the outside place in the presentation.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVII 13 From the middle of the building an ugly flat-topped octagonal tower ascended against the east horizon, and viewed from this spot, on its shady side and against the light, it seemed the one blot on the city's beauty.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LIX 14 The Vale was known in former times as the Forest of White Hart, from a curious legend of King Henry III's reign, in which the killing by a certain Thomas de la Lynd of a beautiful white hart which the king had run down and spared, was made the occasion of a heavy fine.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 15 The village of Marlott lay amid the north-eastern undulations of the beautiful Vale of Blakemore, or Blackmoor, aforesaid, an engirdled and secluded region, for the most part untrodden as yet by tourist or landscape-painter, though within a four hours' journey from London.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 16 When the day grew quite strong and commonplace these dried off her; moreover, Tess then lost her strange and ethereal beauty; her teeth, lips, and eyes scintillated in the sunbeams and she was again the dazzlingly fair dairymaid only, who had to hold her own against the other women of the world.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XX 17 So the girls and their mother all walked together, a child on each side of Tess, holding her hand and looking at her meditatively from time to time, as at one who was about to do great things; her mother just behind with the smallest; the group forming a picture of honest beauty flanked by innocence, and backed by simple-souled vanity.
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