1 The reddleman turned his head, and replied in sad and occupied tones.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 2 The silent being who thus occupied himself seemed to be of no more account in life than an insect.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 5 The Journey across the Heath 3 This was Susan herself, occupied in preparing a posset for her little boy, who, often ailing, was now seriously unwell.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November 4 This bossy projection of earth above its natural level occupied the loftiest ground of the loneliest height that the heath contained.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 5 All then took their leave, wishing their entertainer long life and happiness as a married man, with recapitulations which occupied some time.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People 6 He left alone creeds and systems of philosophy, finding enough and more than enough to occupy his tongue in the opinions and actions common to all good men.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His 7 The point they had now reached, though far from any road, was not more than a mile from the Blooms-End cottages occupied by Fairway, Sam, Humphrey, and the Cantles.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends 8 The loads were all laid together, and a pyramid of furze thirty feet in circumference now occupied the crown of the tumulus, which was known as Rainbarrow for many miles round.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 9 He was one of a class rapidly becoming extinct in Wessex, filling at present in the rural world the place which, during the last century, the dodo occupied in the world of animals.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 10 All the day Clym had borne himself as if his mind were too full of its own matter to allow him to care about outward things, and his words now showed what had occupied his thoughts.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 4 Rough Coercion Is Employed 11 On reaching the house he went up to the room which was to be made his study, and occupied himself during the evening in unpacking his books from the boxes and arranging them on shelves.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama 12 Here she idly occupied herself for a few minutes, till finding no notice was taken of her she retraced her steps through the house to the front, where she listened for voices in the parlour.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian 13 Yet Thomasin occupied Mrs. Yeobright's thoughts but slightly as she looked up the valley of the heath, alive with butterflies, and with grasshoppers whose husky noises on every side formed a whispered chorus.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day 14 It was dusk, and she was sitting by the fire in the dining-room or hall, which they occupied at this time of the year in preference to the parlour, because of its large hearth, constructed for turf-fires, a fuel the captain was partial to in the winter season.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure 15 He had occupied his time in moving with his ponies and load to a new point in the heath, eastward to his previous station; and here he selected a nook with a careful eye to shelter from wind and rain, which seemed to mean that his stay there was to be a comparatively extended one.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 16 The commanding elevation of Rainbarrow had been chosen for two reasons: first, that it occupied a central position among the remote cottages around; secondly, that the preacher thereon could be seen from all adjacent points as soon as he arrived at his post, the view of him being thus a convenient signal to those stragglers who wished to draw near.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His 17 Clym retired to his lodging at the housetop much relieved, and occupied himself during the afternoon in noting down the heads of a sermon, with which he intended to initiate all that really seemed practicable of the scheme that had originally brought him hither, and that he had so long kept in view under various modifications, and through evil and good report.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.