1 So much for Norman blood unaided by Victorian lucre.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 2 It was damp, and she fancied that it was a blood stain.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LVI 3 Well, I hope my young friend will like such a comely sample of his own blood.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VII 4 A scarlet oozing appeared where her blow had alighted, and in a moment the blood began dropping from his mouth upon the straw.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLVII 5 We must take the ups wi the downs, Tess," said she; "and never could your high blood have been found out at a more called-for moment.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: V 6 It is that this sound of a non-existent coach can only be heard by one of d'Urberville blood, and it is held to be of ill-omen to the one who hears it.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: LI 7 Well, think of wretches of our flesh and blood growing up under a taunt which they will gradually get to feel the full force of with their expanding years.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVI 8 But she was such a sheaf of susceptibilities that her pulse was accelerated by the touch, her blood driven to her finger-ends, and the cool arms flushed hot.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVIII 9 Every see-saw of her breath, every wave of her blood, every pulse singing in her ears, was a voice that joined with nature in revolt against her scrupulousness.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVIII 10 The huge pool of blood in front of her was already assuming the iridescence of coagulation; and when the sun rose a hundred prismatic hues were reflected from it.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 11 Well, perhaps that's what young Mr d'Urberville means," he admitted; "and sure enough he mid have serious thoughts about improving his blood by linking on to the old line.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 12 The pointed shaft of the cart had entered the breast of the unhappy Prince like a sword, and from the wound his life's blood was spouting in a stream, and falling with a hiss into the road.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 13 Tess began to perceive that a man in indifferent health, who proposed to start on a journey before one in the morning, ought not to be at an inn at this late hour celebrating his ancient blood.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 14 I do hate the aristocratic principle of blood before everything, and do think that as reasoners the only pedigrees we ought to respect are those spiritual ones of the wise and virtuous, without regard to corporal paternity.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXX 15 Living in such close relations, to meet meant to fall into endearment; flesh and blood could not resist it; and, having arrived at no conclusion as to the issue of such a tendency, he decided to hold aloof for the present from occupations in which they would be mutually engaged.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXV 16 From his remarks his parents now gathered the real reason of the separation; and their Christianity was such that, reprobates being their especial care, the tenderness towards Tess which her blood, her simplicity, even her poverty, had not engendered, was instantly excited by her sin.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LIII