1 He is a pa'son's son, and is too much taken up wi his own thoughts to notice girls.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVII 2 To-night, however, she was the first to go to their common chamber; and she had dozed when the other girls came in.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXI 3 The poor child, torn by a feeling which she hardly understood, turned to the other two girls who came upstairs just then.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXIII 4 He could see the white figures of the girls in the green enclosure whirling about as they had whirled when he was among them.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 5 "This is a thousand pities," he said gallantly, to two or three of the girls nearest him, as soon as there was a pause in the dance.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 6 On his walk he observed the girls from a long distance, though they had been so occupied with their difficulties of passage as not to notice him.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXIII 7 Next in juvenility to Abraham came two more girls, Hope and Modesty; then a boy of three, and then the baby, who had just completed his first year.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 8 The young girls formed, indeed, the majority of the band, and their heads of luxuriant hair reflected in the sunshine every tone of gold, and black, and brown.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 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 HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: XI 10 Like all village girls, she was well grounded in the Holy Scriptures, and had dutifully studied the histories of Aholah and Aholibah, and knew the inferences to be drawn therefrom.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 11 But one of the girls, who occupied an adjoining bed, was more wakeful than Tess, and would insist upon relating to the latter various particulars of the homestead into which she had just entered.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVII 12 The two elder of the brothers were plainly not intending to linger more than a moment, but the spectacle of a bevy of girls dancing without male partners seemed to amuse the third, and make him in no hurry to move on.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 13 A difficulty of arranging their lips in this crude exposure to public scrutiny, an inability to balance their heads, and to dissociate self-consciousness from their features, was apparent in them, and showed that they were genuine country girls, unaccustomed to many eyes.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 14 The crooked lane leading from their own parish to Mellstock ran along the lowest levels in a portion of its length, and when the girls reached the most depressed spot they found that the result of the rain had been to flood the lane over-shoe to a distance of some fifty yards.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXIII 15 As there were no men in the company, the girls danced at first with each other, but when the hour for the close of labour drew on, the masculine inhabitants of the village, together with other idlers and pedestrians, gathered round the spot, and appeared inclined to negotiate for a partner.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 16 So the girls and their mother all walked together, a child on each side of Tess, holding her hand and looking at her meditatively from time to time, as at one who was about to do great things; her mother just behind with the smallest; the group forming a picture of honest beauty flanked by innocence, and backed by simple-souled vanity.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VII 17 She remained with her comrades till dusk, and participated with a certain zest in the dancing; though, being heart-whole as yet, she enjoyed treading a measure purely for its own sake; little divining when she saw "the soft torments, the bitter sweets, the pleasing pains, and the agreeable distresses" of those girls who had been wooed and won, what she herself was capable of in that kind.
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