1 It was a three-mile walk, along a dry white road, made whiter to-night by the light of the moon.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: X 2 They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon and stars were as ardent as they.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: X 3 The swift stream raced and gyrated under them, tossing, distorting, and splitting the moon's reflected face.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVII 4 But the moon had now sunk, the clouds seemed to settle almost on their heads, and the night grew as dark as a cave.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LVIII 5 Though the sky was dense with cloud, a diffused light from some fragment of a moon had hitherto helped them a little.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LVIII 6 Here, under her few square yards of thatch, she watched winds, and snows, and rains, gorgeous sunsets, and successive moons at their full.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIII 7 With the setting of the moon the pale light lessened, and Tess became invisible as she fell into reverie upon the leaves where he had left her.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: XI 8 No; it was not her hair: it was a black stream of something oozing from her basket, and it glistened like a slimy snake in the cold still rays of the moon.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: X 9 At half-past six the sun settled down upon the levels with the aspect of a great forge in the heavens; and presently a monstrous pumpkin-like moon arose on the other hand.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVIII 10 The cold moon looked aslant upon Tess's fagged face between the twigs of the garden-hedge as she paused outside the cottage which was her temporary home, d'Urberville pausing beside her.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLVIII 11 D'Urberville thereupon turned back; but by this time the moon had quite gone down, and partly on account of the fog The Chase was wrapped in thick darkness, although morning was not far off.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: XI 12 In the afternoon the farmer made it known that the rick was to be finished that night, since there was a moon by which they could see to work, and the man with the engine was engaged for another farm on the morrow.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLVIII 13 Then they all rode home in one of the largest wagons, in the company of a broad tarnished moon that had risen from the ground to the eastwards, its face resembling the outworn gold-leaf halo of some worm-eaten Tuscan saint.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 14 As he reached the door the new moon shone upon his face, just as the old one had done in the small hours of that morning when he had carried his wife in his arms across the river to the graveyard of the monks; but his face was thinner now.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXIX 15 Then these children of the open air, whom even excess of alcohol could scarce injure permanently, betook themselves to the field-path; and as they went there moved onward with them, around the shadow of each one's head, a circle of opalized light, formed by the moon's rays upon the glistening sheet of dew.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: X 16 But there was another hour's work before the layer of live rats at the base of the stack would be reached; and as the evening light in the direction of the Giant's Hill by Abbot's-Cernel dissolved away, the white-faced moon of the season arose from the horizon that lay towards Middleton Abbey and Shottsford on the other side.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLVIII