1 Car's poor old grandmother had a weakness for the sweet stuff.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: X 2 People marry sister-laws continually about Marlott; and 'Liza-Lu is so gentle and sweet, and she is growing so beautiful.'
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LVIII 3 The words of endearment, withheld so severely in his waking hours, were inexpressibly sweet to her forlorn and hungry heart.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVII 4 Nothing so pure, so sweet, so virginal as Tess had seemed possible all the long while that he had adored her, up to an hour ago; but.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXV 5 And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXIV 6 But the kindness of his heart was such that he never resented anything for long, and welcomed his son to-day with a smile which was as candidly sweet as a child's.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXV 7 The irresistible, universal, automatic tendency to find sweet pleasure somewhere, which pervades all life, from the meanest to the highest, had at length mastered Tess.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVI 8 Nevertheless humanity stood before him no longer in the pensive sweetness of Italian art, but in the staring and ghastly attitudes of a Wiertz Museum, and with the leer of a study by Van Beers.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXIX 9 It was always beautiful from here; it was terribly beautiful to Tess to-day, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing, and her views of life had been totally changed for her by the lesson.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XII 10 She remained with her comrades till dusk, and participated with a certain zest in the dancing; though, being heart-whole as yet, she enjoyed treading a measure purely for its own sake; little divining when she saw "the soft torments, the bitter sweets, the pleasing pains, and the agreeable distresses" of those girls who had been wooed and won, what she herself was capable of in that kind.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III