1 The wall seemed to be the only friend she had.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLII 2 Well, I hope my young friend will like such a comely sample of his own blood.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VII 3 If she had heard them, she might soon have set her friends right on the matter.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIII 4 Now, though I have been your enemy, I am your friend, even if you won't believe it.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: LI 5 But you have a friend, and I have determined that you shall be comfortable in spite of yourself.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: L 6 Be always the good and sincere girl you have hitherto been; and think of me as a worthless lover, but a faithful friend.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XL 7 The "friend" was d'Urberville, she knew, and also that this concession had been granted in obedience to the request of that friend, or enemy.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLVIII 8 The young lady was Miss Mercy Chant, the only daughter of his father's neighbour and friend, whom it was his parents' quiet hope that he might wed some day.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXV 9 She could hardly see, her eyes having filled with two blurring tears drawn forth by a grief which, to this her best friend and dear advocate, she could never explain.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVII 10 She could answer no more than a bare affirmative, so great was the emotion aroused in her at the thought of going through the world with him as his own familiar friend.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXI 11 Only a solitary cracked-voice reed-sparrow greeted her from the bushes by the river, in a sad, machine-made tone, resembling that of a past friend whose friendship she had outworn.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXI 12 As soon as his horned friend were down, William turned, clinked off like a long-dog, and jumped safe over hedge, before the praying bull had got on his feet again to take after him.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVII 13 Retty put her hands upon Tess's shoulders, as if to realize her friend's corporeality after such a miracle, and the other two laid their arms round her waist, all looking into her face.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXI 14 Even Izz hoped she would win, and, though without any particular respect for her own virtue, felt glad that she had been prevented wronging her friend when momentarily tempted by Clare.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLIV 15 To Tess's surprise Farmer Groby came up on the machine to her, and said that if she desired to join her friend he did not wish her to keep on any longer, and would send somebody else to take her place.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLVIII 16 I was going to add," he said, "that for a pure and saintly woman you will not find one more to your true advantage, and certainly not more to your mother's mind and my own, than your friend Mercy, whom you used to show a certain interest in.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVI 17 The community of fowls to which Tess had been appointed as supervisor, purveyor, nurse, surgeon, and friend made its headquarters in an old thatched cottage standing in an enclosure that had once been a garden, but was now a trampled and sanded square.
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