1 Society might be better than she supposed from her slight experience of it.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLI 2 Her experience of short hirings had been such that she was determined to accept no more.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLII 3 Tess Durbeyfield at this time of her life was a mere vessel of emotion untinctured by experience.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 4 Her first day's experiences were fairly typical of those which followed through many succeeding days.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IX 5 She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 6 He was simply regarding the harrowing contingencies of human experience, the unexpectedness of things.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXV 7 Not guessing the cause, there was nothing to remind him that experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XIX 8 The absoluteness of possession pleased them, and they realized it as the first moment of their experience under their own exclusive roof-tree.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXIV 9 A fortnight later, when the snow had gone, and had been followed by a hard black frost, she took advantage of the state of the roads to try the experiment.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLIV 10 Sheer experience had already taught her that in some circumstances there was one thing better than to lead a good life, and that was to be saved from leading any life whatever.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVI 11 There was, it might be said, the energy of her mother's unexpended family, as well as the natural energy of Tess's years, rekindled after the experience which had so overwhelmed her for the time.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVI 12 Her first experience of the journey afforded her more enjoyment than she had expected, the hilariousness of the others being quite contagious after her monotonous attention to the poultry-farm all the week.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: X 13 Broken in heart and numbed, he had nothing to hurry for; but he wished to get out of a town which had been the scene of such an experience, and turned to walk to the first station onward, and let the train pick him up there.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LVII 14 At breakfast Brazil was the topic, and all endeavoured to take a hopeful view of Clare's proposed experiment with that country's soil, notwithstanding the discouraging reports of some farm-labourers who had emigrated thither and returned home within the twelve months.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XL 15 His experience of women was great enough for him to be aware that the negative often meant nothing more than the preface to the affirmative; and it was little enough for him not to know that in the manner of the present negative there lay a great exception to the dallyings of coyness.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVIII 16 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.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVIII 17 This belief was confirmed by his experience of women, which, having latterly been extended from the cultivated middle-class into the rural community, had taught him how much less was the intrinsic difference between the good and wise woman of one social stratum and the good and wise woman of another social stratum, than between the good and bad, the wise and the foolish, of the same stratum or class.
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