1 A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression 2 The old man frequently stretched his eyes ahead to gaze over the tract that he had yet to traverse.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 3 You could not find a more lonely tract of road anywhere, and it is quite rare to meet so much as a cart, or a peasant, until you reach the high road near Crooksbury Hill.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST 4 Holmes pointed down the long tract of road which wound, a reddish yellow band, between the brown of the heath and the budding green of the woods.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST 5 Had it not been for us whalemen, that tract of land would this day perhaps have been in as howling condition as the coast of Labrador.
6 This is a great tract of a hundred thousand acres, which from time immemorial has been a hunting preserve of the nobility.
7 Birds, beasts, and man, appeared to slumber alike, if, indeed, any of the latter were to be found in that wide tract of wilderness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 14 8 Consciousness of place came ebbing back to him slowly over a vast tract of time unlit, unfelt, unlived.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 9 He saw the squalid tract of her vice, miserable and malodorous.
10 In my hand I held the tract containing the sudden death of the Liar, to which narrative my attention had been pointed as to an appropriate warning.
11 Yet ere then draw thou nigh the nether chambers of Dis, and in the deep tract of hell come, O son, to meet me.
12 Like many insane people, his insanity might be measured by the things he was not aware of the great desert tracts in his consciousness.
13 He walked through the warm sun westward into those tracts of Egdon with which he was best acquainted, being those lying nearer to his old home.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song 14 Those of the dyed barbarians who had chosen the cultivable tracts were, in comparison with those who had left their marks here, as writers on paper beside writers on parchment.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward 15 When you read about 'em in tracts they're always very religious.'