1 This white shape stood apart by the hedge alone.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 2 They saw her white shape draw near to the spring-cart, on which her box was already placed.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VII 3 The wind blew through Tess's white muslin to her very skin, and her washed hair flew out behind.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VIII 4 It was a three-mile walk, along a dry white road, made whiter to-night by the light of the moon.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: X 5 She was so modest, so expressive, she had looked so soft in her thin white gown that he felt he had acted stupidly.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 6 She wore a red ribbon in her hair, and was the only one of the white company who could boast of such a pronounced adornment.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 7 He could see the white figures of the girls in the green enclosure whirling about as they had whirled when he was among them.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 8 D'Urberville looked round upon her, nipped his cigar with the tips of his large white centre-teeth, and allowed his lips to smile slowly of themselves.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VIII 9 In addition to the distinction of a white frock, every woman and girl carried in her right hand a peeled willow wand, and in her left a bunch of white flowers.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 10 The atmosphere turned pale, the birds shook themselves in the hedges, arose, and twittered; the lane showed all its white features, and Tess showed hers, still whiter.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 11 Behind him the hills are open, the sun blazes down upon fields so large as to give an unenclosed character to the landscape, the lanes are white, the hedges low and plashed, the atmosphere colourless.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 12 She had seen daily from her chamber-window towers, villages, faint white mansions; above all, the town of Shaston standing majestically on its height; its windows shining like lamps in the evening sun.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: V 13 Ideal and real clashed slightly as the sun lit up their figures against the green hedges and creeper-laced house-fronts; for, though the whole troop wore white garments, no two whites were alike among them.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 14 Mrs d'Urberville slept in a large four-post bedstead hung with heavy damask curtains, and the bullfinches occupied the same apartment, where they flitted about freely at certain hours, and made little white spots on the furniture and upholstery.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IX 15 When Tess had occupied herself about an hour the next morning in altering and improving the arrangements, according to her skilled ideas as the daughter of a professed poulterer, the door in the wall opened and a servant in white cap and apron entered.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IX 16 The Vale was known in former times as the Forest of White Hart, from a curious legend of King Henry III's reign, in which the killing by a certain Thomas de la Lynd of a beautiful white hart which the king had run down and spared, was made the occasion of a heavy fine.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 17 The eldest wore the white tie, high waistcoat, and thin-brimmed hat of the regulation curate; the second was the normal undergraduate; the appearance of the third and youngest would hardly have been sufficient to characterize him; there was an uncribbed, uncabined aspect in his eyes and attire, implying that he had hardly as yet found the entrance to his professional groove.
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