1 Some twenty yards from the house she was met by one of her sisters.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: L 2 His sister became abruptly still, and lapsed into a pondering silence.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 3 At half-past one Mrs Durbeyfield came into the large bedroom where Tess and all her little brothers and sisters slept.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 4 To go that night would be a gain of twelve-hours; but her sister was too tired to undertake such a distance till the morrow.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLIX 5 Abraham talked on, rather for the pleasure of utterance than for audition, so that his sister's abstraction was of no account.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 6 She lit a candle, and went to a second and a third bed under the wall, where she awoke her young sisters and brothers, all of whom occupied the same room.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 7 Over their heads hung the picture of Angel's sister, the eldest of the family, sixteen years his senior, who had married a missionary and gone out to Africa.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXV 8 As evening thickened, some of the gardening men and women gave over for the night, but the greater number remained to get their planting done, Tess being among them, though she sent her sister home.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: L 9 As soon as her lunch was spread she called up the big girl, her sister, and took the baby of her, who, glad to be relieved of the burden, went away to the next shock and joined the other children playing there.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 10 Her sister, whom a little over a year ago she had left at home as a child, had sprung up by a sudden shoot to a form of this presentation, of which as yet Lu seemed herself scarce able to understand the meaning.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLIX 11 Tess then stood erect with the infant on her arm beside the basin; the next sister held the Prayer-Book open before her, as the clerk at church held it before the parson; and thus the girl set about baptizing her child.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 12 As Tess grew older, and began to see how matters stood, she felt quite a Malthusian towards her mother for thoughtlessly giving her so many little sisters and brothers, when it was such a trouble to nurse and provide for them.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: V 13 She remained at her father's house during the winter months, plucking fowls, or cramming turkeys and geese, or making clothes for her sisters and brothers out of some finery which d'Urberville had given her, and she had put by with contempt.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XV 14 Tess, having quickly eaten her own meal, beckoned to her eldest sister to come and take away the baby, fastened her dress, put on the buff gloves again, and stooped anew to draw a bond from the last completed sheaf for the tying of the next.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 15 Dismissing this, however, she busied herself with sprinkling the linen dried during the day-time, in company with her nine-year-old brother Abraham, and her sister Eliza-Louisa of twelve and a half, called "'Liza-Lu," the youngest ones being put to bed.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 16 Then their sister, with much augmented confidence in the efficacy of the sacrament, poured forth from the bottom of her heart the thanksgiving that follows, uttering it boldly and triumphantly in the stopt-diapason note which her voice acquired when her heart was in her speech, and which will never be forgotten by those who knew her.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV