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1  Mrs d'Urberville's handwriting seemed rather masculine.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: VI
2  She was determined to show no open fear, but she clutched d'Urberville's rein-arm.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: VIII
3  Mrs d'Urberville's son had called on horseback, having been riding by chance in the direction of Marlott.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: VI
4  The girl's surprise at Mrs d'Urberville's manner was not great; for since seeing the size of the house she had expected no more.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: IX
5  And as he asked the question a disappointment which was not entirely the disappointment of thwarted duty crossed d'Urberville's face.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6 The Convert: XLVI
6  It expressed Mr Clare's warm assurance of forgiveness for d'Urberville's former conduct and his interest in the young man's plans for the future.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6 The Convert: XLV
7  She had an attribute which amounted to a disadvantage just now; and it was this that caused Alec d'Urberville's eyes to rivet themselves upon her.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: V
8  She had hardly finished her dinner when d'Urberville's figure darkened the window of the cottage wherein she was a lodger, which she had all to herself to-day.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6 The Convert: XLVI
9  Doubtless some of Tess d'Urberville's mailed ancestors rollicking home from a fray had dealt the same measure even more ruthlessly towards peasant girls of their time.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: XI
10  The letter began by expressing the writer's unfeigned joy at d'Urberville's conversion, and thanked him for his kindness in communicating with the parson on the subject.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6 The Convert: XLV
11  She alighted from the van at Trantridge Cross, and ascended on foot a hill in the direction of the district known as The Chase, on the borders of which, as she had been informed, Mrs d'Urberville's seat, The Slopes, would be found.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: V
12  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 Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: IX