1 Superstitions linger longest on these heavy soils.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: L 2 The single fat thing on the soil was Marian herself; and she was an importation.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLIII 3 The eyes of all were on the soil as its turned surface was revealed by the fires.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: L 4 The gold of the summer picture was now gray, the colours mean, the rich soil mud, and the river cold.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVII 5 The ascent was gradual on this side, and the soil and scenery differed much from those within Blakemore Vale.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XII 6 Soon the equipage began to ascend to higher ground, and the wind grew keener with the change of level and soil.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: LII 7 The sapling which had rooted down to a poisonous stratum on the spot of its sowing had been transplanted to a deeper soil.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XX 8 It lacked the intensely blue atmosphere of the rival vale, and its heavy soils and scents; the new air was clear, bracing, ethereal.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVI 9 And as he looked at the unpracticed mouth and lips, he thought that such a daughter of the soil could only have caught up the sentiment by rote.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XIX 10 The stubborn soil around her showed plainly enough that the kind of labour in demand here was of the roughest kind; but it was time to rest from searching, and she resolved to stay, particularly as it began to rain.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLII 11 The winding road downwards became just visible to her under the wan starlight as she followed it, and soon she paced a soil so contrasting with that above it that the difference was perceptible to the tread and to the smell.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: L 12 As he walked his pace showed perturbation, and by-and-by, as if instigated by a former thought, he drew from his pocket a small book, between the leaves of which was folded a letter, worn and soiled, as from much re-reading.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLV 13 The isolation of his manner and colour lent him the appearance of a creature from Tophet, who had strayed into the pellucid smokelessness of this region of yellow grain and pale soil, with which he had nothing in common, to amaze and to discompose its aborigines.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLVII 14 At breakfast Brazil was the topic, and all endeavoured to take a hopeful view of Clare's proposed experiment with that country's soil, notwithstanding the discouraging reports of some farm-labourers who had emigrated thither and returned home within the twelve months.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XL 15 Immediately he began to descend from the upland to the fat alluvial soil below, the atmosphere grew heavier; the languid perfume of the summer fruits, the mists, the hay, the flowers, formed therein a vast pool of odour which at this hour seemed to make the animals, the very bees and butterflies drowsy.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVII 16 The shovelfuls of loam, black as jet, brought there by the river when it was as wide as the whole valley, were an essence of soils, pounded champaigns of the past, steeped, refined, and subtilized to extraordinary richness, out of which came all the fertility of the mead, and of the cattle grazing there.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXI