1 Then the talk was of business only.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVII 2 It is a queer business, apparently.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLIV 3 You've be'n born in the business, and brought up in it.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 4 They that be born in a business always know more about it than any 'prentice.'
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 5 The haggling business, which had mainly depended on the horse, became disorganized forthwith.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: V 6 But I must think of starting in business on my own hook with the new year, or a little later.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXI 7 Mr Clare volunteered to do so, though it was none of his business, asking Tess to accompany him.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXIX 8 Now it is done we do not complain, particularly if she suits you for the business you have chosen to follow instead of the ministry of the Gospel.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXIX 9 As usual, Mrs Durbeyfield was balanced on one foot beside the tub, the other being engaged in the aforesaid business of rocking her youngest child.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 10 Tess hastily explained that he had been called away on business, and, leaving her interlocutor, clambered over the garden-hedge, and thus made her way to the house.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVIII 11 The upper half of each turnip had been eaten off by the live-stock, and it was the business of the two women to grub up the lower or earthy half of the root with a hooked fork called a hacker, that it might be eaten also.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLIII 12 Having at last taken her course Tess was less restless and abstracted, going about her business with some self-assurance in the thought of acquiring another horse for her father by an occupation which would not be onerous.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 13 She soon found that whistling to the bullfinches in Mrs d'Urberville's room was no such onerous business when she had regained the art, for she had caught from her musical mother numerous airs that suited those songsters admirably.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IX 14 Breakfast over, he rose, and telling her the hour at which he might be expected to dinner, went off to the miller's in a mechanical pursuance of the plan of studying that business, which had been his only practical reason for coming here.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVI 15 It was a most tedious business, not more than half a dozen shoots of garlic being discoverable in the whole field; yet such was the herb's pungency that probably one bite of it by one cow had been sufficient to season the whole dairy's produce for the day.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXII 16 Their route lay near the dairy from which they had started with such solemn joy in each other a few days back, and as Clare wished to wind up his business with Mr Crick, Tess could hardly avoid paying Mrs Crick a call at the same time, unless she would excite suspicion of their unhappy state.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVII 17 As a balance to these austerities, when he went to live in London to see what the world was like, and with a view to practising a profession or business there, he was carried off his head, and nearly entrapped by a woman much older than himself, though luckily he escaped not greatly the worse for the experience.
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