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1 They decided to go immediately after the wedding, and remain for a fortnight, instead of journeying to towns and inns.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXII
2 The day hardened in colour, the light coming in at the barndoors upwards from the snow instead of downwards from the sky.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLIII
3 Now it is done we do not complain, particularly if she suits you for the business you have chosen to follow instead of the ministry of the Gospel.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXIX
4 The enclosures numbered fifty acres instead of ten, the farmsteads were more extended, the groups of cattle formed tribes hereabout; there only families.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVI
5 If she had said "Yes" instead of "No" he would have kissed her; it had evidently been his intention; but her determined negative deterred his scrupulous heart.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXIX
6 He was going to Weatherbury, and by accompanying him thither she could walk the remainder of the distance instead of travelling in the van by way of Casterbridge.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVI
7 More than once she thought of going away from him during his absence at the mill; but she feared that this, instead of benefiting him, might be the means of hampering and humiliating him yet more if it should become known.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVI
8 On inquiry of these precious innocents, to whom even the name of their predecessors was a failing memory, Clare learned that John Durbeyfield was dead; that his widow and children had left Marlott, declaring that they were going to live at Kingsbere, but instead of doing so had gone on to another place they mentioned.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LIV
9 We discover the latter in changed conditions; instead of a bride with boxes and trunks which others bore, we see her a lonely woman with a basket and a bundle in her own porterage, as at an earlier time when she was no bride; instead of the ample means that were projected by her husband for her comfort through this probationary period, she can produce only a flattened purse.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLI