1 Outside was a ditch, dry except immediately under the fire, where there was a large pool, bearded all round by heather and rushes.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 2 The heather and peat stratum overhung the brow of the pit in mats, hiding the actual verge.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody 3 The boy had stepped beyond the solid ground; the heather now gave way, and down he rolled over the scarp of grey sand to the very foot of the man.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody 4 The reddleman would now have been quite invisible, even by daylight; the turves, standing upon him with the heather upwards, looked precisely as if they were growing.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 5 Wildeve walked a pace or two among the heather without replying.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 6 After standing awhile he stooped and felt the heather.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness 7 The July sun shone over Egdon and fired its crimson heather to scarlet.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 1 The Rencounter by the Pool 8 Venn retreated before him down the hill to a place where the path was merely a deep groove between the heather; here he mysteriously bent over the ground for a few minutes, and retired.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 4 Rough Coercion Is Employed 9 He locked up the house and went out into the green patch which merged in heather further on.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding 10 Eustacia was leaning against it on the outside, her face covered with her hands, and her head pressing the dewy heather which bearded the bank's outer side.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 4 The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One 11 They listened to the words of the man in their midst, who was preaching, while they abstractedly pulled heather, stripped ferns, or tossed pebbles down the slope.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His 12 He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB 13 We were fortunate enough to catch an early train at Waterloo, and in a little under an hour we found ourselves among the fir-woods and the heather of Woking.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty 14 On the path, too, and among the heather were dark stains of clotted blood.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 15 As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them.