1 Almost at a leap Tess thus changed from simple girl to complex woman.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XV 2 Half an hour passed yet again; neither man, woman, nor child returned.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 3 She gathered that no great affection flowed between the blind woman and her son.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IX 4 The light-minded woman had been discovering good matches for her daughter almost from the year of her birth.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 5 It was a luxuriance of aspect, a fulness of growth, which made her appear more of a woman than she really was.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: V 6 She had not considered what she had been doing; whether he were man or woman, stick or stone, in her involuntary hold on him.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VIII 7 You can hold your own for beauty against any woman of these parts, gentle or simple; I say it to you as a practical man and well-wisher.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XII 8 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 9 "She's fond of that there child, though she mid pretend to hate en, and say she wishes the baby and her too were in the churchyard," observed the woman in the red petticoat.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 10 Then one can see the oval face of a handsome young woman with deep dark eyes and long heavy clinging tresses, which seem to clasp in a beseeching way anything they fall against.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 11 She became what would have been called a fine creature; her aspect was fair and arresting; her soul that of a woman whom the turbulent experiences of the last year or two had quite failed to demoralize.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XV 12 In a sitting-room on the ground-floor, ensconced in an armchair with her back to the light, was the owner and mistress of the estate, a white-haired woman of not more than sixty, or even less, wearing a large cap.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IX 13 But those of the other sex were the most interesting of this company of binders, by reason of the charm which is acquired by woman when she becomes part and parcel of outdoor nature, and is not merely an object set down therein as at ordinary times.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 14 There still faintly beamed from the woman's features something of the freshness, and even the prettiness, of her youth; rendering it probable that the personal charms which Tess could boast of were in main part her mother's gift, and therefore unknightly, unhistorical.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 15 Yet such was the force of example that the village young men, who had not hastened to enter the gate while no intruder was in the way, now dropped in quickly, and soon the couples became leavened with rustic youth to a marked extent, till at length the plainest woman in the club was no longer compelled to foot it on the masculine side of the figure.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 16 So the baby was carried in a small deal box, under an ancient woman's shawl, to the churchyard that night, and buried by lantern-light, at the cost of a shilling and a pint of beer to the sexton, in that shabby corner of God's allotment where He lets the nettles grow, and where all unbaptized infants, notorious drunkards, suicides, and others of the conjecturally damned are laid.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 17 Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.
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