1 'Tis the women's club-walking, Sir John.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 2 Fair women are usually asleep at mid-summer dawns.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XX 3 There is contagion in this sentiment, especially among women.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXIII 4 They were blooming young women, and, except one, rather older than herself.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVII 5 "They are better women than I," she replied, magnanimously sticking to her resolve.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXIII 6 All the women but Tess fell into animated talk, and adjusted the disarranged knots of their hair.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 7 All the men, and some of the women, when milking, dug their foreheads into the cows and gazed into the pail.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XXIV 8 Perhaps one reason why she seduces casual attention is that she never courts it, though the other women often gaze around them.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 9 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 10 Several other women also chimed in, with an animus which none of them would have been so fatuous as to show but for the rollicking evening they had passed.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: X 11 The levity of some of the younger women in and about Trantridge was marked, and was perhaps symptomatic of the choice spirit who ruled The Slopes in that vicinity.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: X 12 There were a few middle-aged and even elderly women in the train, their silver-wiry hair and wrinkled faces, scourged by time and trouble, having almost a grotesque, certainly a pathetic, appearance in such a jaunty situation.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 13 Two groups, one of men and lads, the other of women, had come down the lane just at the hour when the shadows of the eastern hedge-top struck the west hedge midway, so that the heads of the groups were enjoying sunrise while their feet were still in the dawn.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 14 When the day grew quite strong and commonplace these dried off her; moreover, Tess then lost her strange and ethereal beauty; her teeth, lips, and eyes scintillated in the sunbeams and she was again the dazzlingly fair dairymaid only, who had to hold her own against the other women of the world.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XX 15 To be as much out of observation as possible for reasons of her own, and to escape the gallantries of the young men, she set out before the chiming began, and took a back seat under the gallery, close to the lumber, where only old men and women came, and where the bier stood on end among the churchyard tools.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIII 16 The movements of the other women were more or less similar to Tess's, the whole bevy of them drawing together like dancers in a quadrille at the completion of a sheaf by each, every one placing her sheaf on end against those of the rest, till a shock, or "stitch" as it was here called, of ten or a dozen was formed.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 17 And probably the half-unconscious rhapsody was a Fetishistic utterance in a Monotheistic setting; women whose chief companions are the forms and forces of outdoor Nature retain in their souls far more of the Pagan fantasy of their remote forefathers than of the systematized religion taught their race at later date.
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