1 The groan had proceeded from her father's poor horse Prince.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 2 I killed the old horse, and I suppose I ought to do something to get ye a new one.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 3 She suddenly stepped up; he mounted beside her, and immediately whipped on the horse.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VII 4 The haggling business, which had mainly depended on the horse, became disorganized forthwith.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: V 5 Well, as I killed the horse, mother," she said mournfully, "I suppose I ought to do something.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: V 6 Her idea had been to get together sufficient money during the summer to purchase another horse.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 7 "Going to work, my dears, for our rich relation, and help get enough money for a new horse," said Mrs Durbeyfield pacifically.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VII 8 The rickety little waggon was already laden, and the girl led out the horse, Prince, only a degree less rickety than the vehicle.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 9 When the hole was ready, Durbeyfield and his wife tied a rope round the horse and dragged him up the path towards it, the children following in funeral train.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 10 Now take up that basket, and goo on to Marlott, and when you've come to The Pure Drop Inn, tell 'em to send a horse and carriage to me immed'ately, to carry me hwome.'
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 11 Ever since the accident with her father's horse Tess Durbeyfield, courageous as she naturally was, had been exceedingly timid on wheels; the least irregularity of motion startled her.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VIII 12 Tess was not skilful in the management of a horse, but she thought that she could take upon herself the entire conduct of the load for the present and allow Abraham to go to sleep if he wished to do so.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 13 They followed the way till they reached the beginning of the ascent, on the crest of which the vehicle from Trantridge was to receive her, this limit having been fixed to save the horse the labour of the last slope.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VII 14 Having at last taken her course Tess was less restless and abstracted, going about her business with some self-assurance in the thought of acquiring another horse for her father by an occupation which would not be onerous.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 15 Down, down, they sped, the wheels humming like a top, the dog-cart rocking right and left, its axis acquiring a slightly oblique set in relation to the line of progress; the figure of the horse rising and falling in undulations before them.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VIII 16 They put a stock of candle-ends into the lantern, hung the latter to the off-side of the load, and directed the horse onward, walking at his shoulder at first during the uphill parts of the way, in order not to overload an animal of so little vigour.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 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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