1 But Tess's pride made the part of poor relation one of particular distaste to her.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: V 2 Her mother's pride in the girl's appearance led her to step back, like a painter from his easel, and survey her work as a whole.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VII 3 His father returned a negative, and then for the first time it occurred to Angel that her pride had stood in her way, and that she had suffered privation.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LIII 4 Tess's pride would not allow her to turn her head again, to learn what her father's meaning was, if he had any; and thus she moved on with the whole body to the enclosure where there was to be dancing on the green.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 5 The same delicacy, pride, false shame, whatever it may be called, on Clare's account, which had led her to hide from her own parents the prolongation of the estrangement, hindered her owning to his that she was in want after the fair allowance he had left her.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLI 6 Then, examining the mesh of events in her own life, she seemed to see the vanity of her father's pride; the gentlemanly suitor awaiting herself in her mother's fancy; to see him as a grimacing personage, laughing at her poverty and her shrouded knightly ancestry.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 7 But so far was she from being, in the words of Robert South, "in love with her own ruin," that the illusion was transient as lightning; cold reason came back to mock her spasmodic weakness; the ghastliness of her momentary pride would convict her, and recall her to reserved listlessness again.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIII