1 The marked difference, in the final particular, between the rival vales now showed itself.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVI 2 Yet it was in that vale that her sorrow had taken shape, and she did not love it as formerly.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLIV 3 All the while they were converging, under an irresistible law, as surely as two streams in one vale.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XX 4 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 5 The van travelled only so far as Shaston, and there were several miles of pedestrian descent from that mountain-town into the vale to Marlott.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 6 The hot weather of July had crept upon them unawares, and the atmosphere of the flat vale hung heavy as an opiate over the dairy-folk, the cows, and the trees.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXIII 7 A clamber over the hill into the adjoining vale brought him to the fence of a highway whose contours he recognized, which settled the question of their whereabouts.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: XI 8 This was mostly a journey to the farmhouse on the slopes above the vale, to inquire how the advanced cows were getting on in the straw-barton to which they were relegated.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXII 9 From the whole extent of the invisible vale came a multitudinous intonation; it forced upon their fancy that a great city lay below them, and that the murmur was the vociferation of its populace.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXII 10 The river had stolen from the higher tracts and brought in particles to the vale all this horizontal land; and now, exhausted, aged, and attenuated, lay serpentining along through the midst of its former spoils.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVI 11 Thus she proceeded mile after mile, ascending and descending till she came to Bulbarrow, and about midnight looked from that height into the abyss of chaotic shade which was all that revealed itself of the vale on whose further side she was born.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: L 12 The sun was so near the ground, and the sward so flat, that the shadows of Clare and Tess would stretch a quarter of a mile ahead of them, like two long fingers pointing afar to where the green alluvial reaches abutted against the sloping sides of the vale.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXI 13 The stranger had sojourned in many more lands and among many more peoples than Angel; to his cosmopolitan mind such deviations from the social norm, so immense to domesticity, were no more than are the irregularities of vale and mountain-chain to the whole terrestrial curve.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLIX