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 heard you, I believe, though I fancied it was a carriage and horses.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: LI 3 While the horses stood to stale and breathe themselves Tess looked around.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: LII 4 The horses, which had been unharnessed and fed, were again attached to the scarlet machine.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 5 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 6 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 7 But I took no notice o't, thinking it to mean that we had once kept two horses where we now keep only one.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 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 Some of the households were lively, some mournful; some were stopping at the doors of wayside inns; where, in due time, the Durbeyfield menagerie also drew up to bait horses and refresh the travellers.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: LII 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 The machine had begun, and a moving concatenation of three horses and the aforesaid long rickety machine was visible over the gate, a driver sitting upon one of the hauling horses, and an attendant on the seat of the implement.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 14 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 15 Along the edge of each of these something crept upon ten legs, moving without haste and without rest up and down the whole length of the field; it was two horses and a man, the plough going between them, turning up the cleared ground for a spring sowing.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLVI 16 At the last return of Joan to the vehicle, an hour later, when her search for accommodation had still been fruitless, the driver of the waggon said the goods must be unloaded, as the horses were half-dead, and he was bound to return part of the way at least that night.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: LII 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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