1 Well, Tess ought to go to this other member of our family.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 2 Yours is not the only family that was of 'count in wold days.'
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 3 Even now, when burdened with a young family, Joan Durbeyfield was a passionate lover of tune.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 4 The renewed subject, which seemed to have impregnated the whole family, filled Tess with impatience.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 5 None; though you once had 'em in abundance, as I said, for your family consisted of numerous branches.'
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 6 Well, I have heard once or twice, 'tis true, that my family had seen better days afore they came to Blackmoor.'
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 7 He do want to get up his strength for his journey to-morrow with that load of beehives, which must be delivered, family or no.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 8 Branches of your family held manors over all this part of England; their names appear in the Pipe Rolls in the time of King Stephen.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 9 He worked harder the next day in digging a grave for Prince in the garden than he had worked for months to grow a crop for his family.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 10 Her mother's intelligence was that of a happy child: Joan Durbeyfield was simply an additional one, and that not the eldest, to her own long family of waiters on Providence.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: V 11 It was not a manorial home in the ordinary sense, with fields, and pastures, and a grumbling farmer, out of whom the owner had to squeeze an income for himself and his family by hook or by crook.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: V 12 Every day seemed to throw upon her young shoulders more of the family burdens, and that Tess should be the representative of the Durbeyfields at the d'Urberville mansion came as a thing of course.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: V 13 There was an interval of four years and more between Tess and the next of the family, the two who had filled the gap having died in their infancy, and this lent her a deputy-maternal attitude when she was alone with her juniors.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 14 But the very shiftlessness of the household rendered the misfortune a less terrifying one to them than it would have been to a thriving family, though in the present case it meant ruin, and in the other it would only have meant inconvenience.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 15 His own investigations had begun on a day in the preceding spring when, having been engaged in tracing the vicissitudes of the d'Urberville family, he had observed Durbeyfield's name on his waggon, and had thereupon been led to make inquiries about his father and grandfather till he had no doubt on the subject.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 16 Parson Tringham had spoken truly when he said that our shambling John Durbeyfield was the only really lineal representative of the old d'Urberville family existing in the county, or near it; he might have added, what he knew very well, that the Stoke-d'Urbervilles were no more d'Urbervilles of the true tree then he was himself.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: V 17 It was eleven o'clock before the family were all in bed, and two o'clock next morning was the latest hour for starting with the beehives if they were to be delivered to the retailers in Casterbridge before the Saturday market began, the way thither lying by bad roads over a distance of between twenty and thirty miles, and the horse and waggon being of the slowest.
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