1 Meanwhile Tess was walking thoughtfully among the gooseberry-bushes in the garden, and over Prince's grave.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 2 He asked in a business-like manner if he should take her basket, which she permitted him to do, walking beside him.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XII 3 The evening grew darker, and the roads being crossed by gates, it was not safe to drive faster than at a walking pace.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXX 4 In a few minutes a youth appeared in the distance, walking in the same direction as that which had been pursued by Durbeyfield.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 5 Its singularity lay less in the retention of a custom of walking in procession and dancing on each anniversary than in the members being solely women.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 6 He had strung himself up to the purpose while kneeling behind his brothers on the carpet, studying the little nails in the heels of their walking boots.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVI 7 Tess paid the penalty of walking about with happiness superadded to beauty on her countenance by being much stared at as she moved amid them on his arm.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXIII 8 His brothers had already left the Vicarage to proceed on a walking tour in the north, whence one was to return to his college, and the other to his curacy.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVI 9 On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore, or Blackmoor.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 10 The Emminster congregation looked at her as only a congregation of small country-townsfolk walking home at its leisure can look at a woman out of the common whom it perceives to be a stranger.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLIV 11 She had run up in her bedgown to his door to call him as usual; then had gone back to dress and call the others; and in ten minutes was walking to the head of the stairs with the candle in her hand.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXIX 12 These three brethren told casual acquaintance that they were spending their Whitsun holidays in a walking tour through the Vale of Blackmoor, their course being south-westerly from the town of Shaston on the north-east.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 13 The dairymaids and men had flocked down from their cottages and out of the dairy-house with the arrival of the cows from the meads; the maids walking in pattens, not on account of the weather, but to keep their shoes above the mulch of the barton.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVII 14 They put a stock of candle-ends into the lantern, hung the latter to the off-side of the load, and directed the horse onward, walking at his shoulder at first during the uphill parts of the way, in order not to overload an animal of so little vigour.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 15 It was said afterwards that a cottager of Wellbridge, who went out late that night for a doctor, met two lovers in the pastures, walking very slowly, without converse, one behind the other, as in a funeral procession, and the glimpse that he obtained of their faces seemed to denote that they were anxious and sad.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXV 16 Across it was a narrow foot-bridge; but now the autumn flood had washed the handrail away, leaving the bare plank only, which, lying a few inches above the speeding current, formed a giddy pathway for even steady heads; and Tess had noticed from the window of the house in the day-time young men walking across upon it as a feat in balancing.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVII 17 At this dim inceptive stage of the day Tess seemed to Clare to exhibit a dignified largeness both of disposition and physique, an almost regnant power, possibly because he knew that at that preternatural time hardly any woman so well endowed in person as she was likely to be walking in the open air within the boundaries of his horizon; very few in all England.
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