1 He was to have retained his isolated and weird.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 6: 3 The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin 2 Thus we see her in a strange state of isolation.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night 3 The look suggested isolation, but it revealed something more.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face 4 His occupation tended to isolate him, and isolated he was mostly seen to be.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 5 His occupation tended to isolate him, and isolated he was mostly seen to be.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 6 Venn passed on through these towards the house of the isolated beauty who lived up among them and despised them.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 7 People who came to these few isolated houses to keep Christmas with their friends remained in their friends' chimney-corners drinking mead and other comforting liquors till they left again for good and all.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure 8 This brought her to a spot in which the green bottom of the dale began to widen, the furze bushes to recede yet further from the path on each side, till they were diminished to an isolated one here and there by the increasing fertility of the soil.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 1 Tidings of the Comer 9 Anyone who had stood by now would have pitied her, not so much on account of her exposure to weather, and isolation from all of humanity except the mouldered remains inside the tumulus; but for that other form of misery which was denoted by the slightly rocking movement that her feelings imparted to her person.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November 10 In almost every one of the isolated and stunted thorns which grew here and there a nighthawk revealed his presence by whirring like the clack of a mill as long as he could hold his breath, then stopping, flapping his wings, wheeling round the bush, alighting, and after a silent interval of listening beginning to whirr again.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends