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1  But that spectacle did not affect her preoccupation.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4 The Consequence: XXX
2  And accomplishments have their charm, returned his mother, looking at him through her silver spectacles.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVI
3  But with living on there, day after day, the acute sojourner became conscious of a new aspect in the spectacle.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 3 The Rally: XVIII
4  The laughter rang louder; they clung to the gate, to the posts, rested on their staves, in the weakness engendered by their convulsions at the spectacle of Car.
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5  Then she became aware of the spectacle she presented to their surprised vision: roses at her breasts; roses in her hat; roses and strawberries in her basket to the brim.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: VI
6  "I suppose it is farming or nothing for you now, my dear fellow," Felix was saying, among other things, to his youngest brother, as he looked through his spectacles at the distant fields with sad austerity.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 4 The Consequence: XXV
7  The two elder of the brothers were plainly not intending to linger more than a moment, but the spectacle of a bevy of girls dancing without male partners seemed to amuse the third, and make him in no hurry to move on.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: II
8  The new arrival, who was just about to enter, saw their anxious faces in the doorway and the gleam of the west in their spectacles because they confronted the last rays of day; but they could only see his shape against the light.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 7 Fulfilment: LIII
9  They were both somewhat short-sighted, and when it was the custom to wear a single eyeglass and string they wore a single eyeglass and string; when it was the custom to wear a double glass they wore a double glass; when it was the custom to wear spectacles they wore spectacles straightway, all without reference to the particular variety of defect in their own vision.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4 The Consequence: XXV