1 Besides, the house sometimes shuts up just when their jints begin to get greased.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: X 2 The house was overrun with ivy, its chimney being enlarged by the boughs of the parasite to the aspect of a ruined tower.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IX 3 The girl's surprise at Mrs d'Urberville's manner was not great; for since seeing the size of the house she had expected no more.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IX 4 When she entered the house she perceived in a moment from her mother's triumphant manner that something had occurred in the interim.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 5 This embodiment of a d'Urberville and a namesake differed even more from what Tess had expected than the house and grounds had differed.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: V 6 Her mother chimed in to the same tune: a certain way she had of making her labours in the house seem heavier than they were by prolonging them indefinitely, also weighed in the argument.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 7 Now, if you will promise to wait beside the horse while I walk through the bushes till I come to some road or house, and ascertain exactly our whereabouts, I'll deposit you here willingly.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: XI 8 Tess thought this was the mansion itself till, passing through the side wicket with some trepidation, and onward to a point at which the drive took a turn, the house proper stood in full view.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: V 9 Tess, however, had undergone such painful experiences of this kind in her father's house that the discovery of their condition spoilt the pleasure she was beginning to feel in the moonlight journey.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: X 10 A curious fetishistic fear of this grimy volume on the part of her mother prevented her ever allowing it to stay in the house all night, and hither it was brought back whenever it had been consulted.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 11 The lurid presentment so powerfully affected her imagination in the silence of the sleeping house that her nightgown became damp with perspiration, and the bedstead shook with each throb of her heart.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 12 At first she could not find them, and she was informed that most of them had gone to what they called a private little jig at the house of a hay-trusser and peat-dealer who had transactions with their farm.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: X 13 Her mother had advised her to stay here for the night, at the house of a cottage-woman they knew, if she should feel too tired to come on; and this Tess did, not descending to her home till the following afternoon.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 14 The front door being open she could see straight through the house into the garden at the back as far as the shades of night would allow; and nobody appearing to her knock, she traversed the dwelling and went up the path to the outhouse whence the sound had attracted her.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: X 15 After a long seclusion she had come to a resolve to undertake outdoor work in her native village, the busiest season of the year in the agricultural world having arrived, and nothing that she could do within the house being so remunerative for the time as harvesting in the fields.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 16 Not only did the distance to the The Pure Drop, the fully-licensed tavern at the further part of the dispersed village, render its accommodation practically unavailable for dwellers at this end; but the far more serious question, the quality of the liquor, confirmed the prevalent opinion that it was better to drink with Rolliver in a corner of the housetop than with the other landlord in a wide house.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 17 The descendants of these bygone owners felt it almost as a slight to their family when the house which had so much of their affection, had cost so much of their forefathers' money, and had been in their possession for several generations before the d'Urbervilles came and built here, was indifferently turned into a fowl-house by Mrs Stoke-d'Urberville as soon as the property fell into hand according to law.
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