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1 You are Eve, and I am the old Other One come to tempt you in the disguise of an inferior animal.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: L
2 The beginning of November found its date still in abeyance, though he asked her at the most tempting times.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXII
3 He had been on the point of kissing that too tempting mouth, but he checked himself, for tender conscience sake.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXIV
4 There are many questions that I am tempted to ask, but I will not do so, of course, in opposition to your wishes.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLVI
5 Even Izz hoped she would win, and, though without any particular respect for her own virtue, felt glad that she had been prevented wronging her friend when momentarily tempted by Clare.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLIV
6 Thus she went forward from farm to farm in the direction of the place whence Marian had written to her, which she determined to make use of as a last shift only, its rumoured stringencies being the reverse of tempting.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLII
7 Yes, though nobody else should reproach me if we should stay together, yet somewhen, years hence, you might get angry with me for any ordinary matter, and knowing what you do of my bygones, you yourself might be tempted to say words, and they might be overheard, perhaps by my own children.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVI
8 In something less than an hour-and-a-half he had skirted the south of the King's Hintock estates and ascended to the untoward solitude of Cross-in-Hand, the unholy stone whereon Tess had been compelled by Alec d'Urberville, in his whim of reformation, to swear the strange oath that she would never wilfully tempt him again.
Tess of the d'UrbervillesBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LIV