1 Perhaps if Angel had persevered he might have gone to Cambridge like his brothers.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVIII 2 He had not yet overtaken his brothers, but he paused to get breath, and looked back.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 3 It was chiefly a difference in his manner that they noticed just now, particularly his brothers.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXV 4 His father and mother were both in the drawing-room, but neither of his brothers was now at home.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXIX 5 At half-past one Mrs Durbeyfield came into the large bedroom where Tess and all her little brothers and sisters slept.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 6 Their general likeness to each other, and their consecutive ages, would almost have suggested that they might be, what in fact they were, brothers.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 7 He had strung himself up to the purpose while kneeling behind his brothers on the carpet, studying the little nails in the heels of their walking boots.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVI 8 She lit a candle, and went to a second and a third bed under the wall, where she awoke her young sisters and brothers, all of whom occupied the same room.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 9 His brothers had already left the Vicarage to proceed on a walking tour in the north, whence one was to return to his college, and the other to his curacy.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVI 10 Angel would have liked one at least of his brothers to be present as groomsman, but their silence after his gentle hint to that effect by letter had signified that they did not care to come.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXIII 11 At times, nevertheless, it did seem unaccountable to her that a decidedly bookish, musical, thinking young man should have chosen deliberately to be a farmer, and not a clergyman, like his father and brothers.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XIX 12 The two elder of the brothers were plainly not intending to linger more than a moment, but the spectacle of a bevy of girls dancing without male partners seemed to amuse the third, and make him in no hurry to move on.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 13 After breakfast he walked with his two brothers, non-evangelical, well-educated, hall-marked young men, correct to their remotest fibre, such unimpeachable models as are turned out yearly by the lathe of a systematic tuition.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXV 14 The same unworldliness was what had necessitated Angel's getting a living as a farmer, and would probably keep his brothers in the position of poor parsons for the term of their activities; yet Angel admired it none the less.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVI 15 As Tess grew older, and began to see how matters stood, she felt quite a Malthusian towards her mother for thoughtlessly giving her so many little sisters and brothers, when it was such a trouble to nurse and provide for them.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: V 16 She remained at her father's house during the winter months, plucking fowls, or cramming turkeys and geese, or making clothes for her sisters and brothers out of some finery which d'Urberville had given her, and she had put by with contempt.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XV 17 His brothers had not replied at all, seeming to be indignant with him; while his father and mother had written a rather sad letter, deploring his precipitancy in rushing into marriage, but making the best of the matter by saying that, though a dairywoman was the last daughter-in-law they could have expected, their son had arrived at an age which he might be supposed to be the best judge.
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