1 After some miles they came in view of the clump of trees beyond which the village of Marlott stood.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XII 2 She said that she did not wish him to drive her further, and they stopped just under the clump of trees.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XII 3 The cans of new milk were unladen in the rain, Tess getting a little shelter from a neighbouring holly tree.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXX 4 The light of the engine flashed for a second upon Tess Durbeyfield's figure, motionless under the great holly tree.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXX 5 Having buttoned the overcoat round her shoulders he plunged into the webs of vapour which by this time formed veils between the trees.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: XI 6 Her eyes vaguely rested upon the remotest trees in the lane while the kiss was given, as though she were nearly unconscious of what he did.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XII 7 Arable lands are few and limited; with but slight exceptions the prospect is a broad rich mass of grass and trees, mantling minor hills and dales within the major.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 8 There were few trees, or none, those that would have grown in the hedges being mercilessly plashed down with the quickset by the tenant-farmers, the natural enemies of tree, bush, and brake.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLII 9 Having once been forest, at this shadowy time it seemed to assert something of its old character, the far and the near being blended, and every tree and tall hedge making the most of its presence.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: L 10 During the day the animals obsequiously followed the shadow of the smallest tree as it moved round the stem with the diurnal roll; and when the milkers came they could hardly stand still for the flies.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXIV 11 Even now, traces of its earlier condition are to be found in the old oak copses and irregular belts of timber that yet survive upon its slopes, and the hollow-trunked trees that shade so many of its pastures.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 12 But before she had quite reached it another vehicle shot out from a clump of trees on the summit, came round the bend of the road there, passed the luggage-cart, and halted beside Tess, who looked up as if in great surprise.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VII 13 She tried several ballads, but found them inadequate; till, recollecting the psalter that her eyes had so often wandered over of a Sunday morning before she had eaten of the tree of knowledge, she chanted: "O ye Sun and Moon."
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVI 14 Every twig was covered with a white nap as of fur grown from the rind during the night, giving it four times its usual stoutness; the whole bush or tree forming a staring sketch in white lines on the mournful gray of the sky and horizon.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLIII 15 Yet he was not an extravagant-minded man in this, and in constructing his family tree on the new basis was duly reasonable in framing his inter-marriages and aristocratic links, never inserting a single title above a rank of strict moderation.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: V 16 The mute procession past her shoulders of trees and hedges became attached to fantastic scenes outside reality, and the occasional heave of the wind became the sigh of some immense sad soul, conterminous with the universe in space, and with history in time.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 17 Parson Tringham had spoken truly when he said that our shambling John Durbeyfield was the only really lineal representative of the old d'Urberville family existing in the county, or near it; he might have added, what he knew very well, that the Stoke-d'Urbervilles were no more d'Urbervilles of the true tree then he was himself.
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