item: #1 of 11 id: 17500 author: Hardy, Thomas title: The Return of the Native date: None words: 145380 flesch: 83 summary: The fates have not been kind to you, Eustacia Yeobright. Next day she went her ways as usual, and continued her custom of walking in the heath with no other companion than little Eustacia, now of the age when it is a matter of doubt with such characters whether they are intended to walk through the world on their hands or on their feet; so that they get into painful complications by trying both. keywords: aunt; boy; cantle; charley; christian; clym; course; dark; day; days; door; egdon; end; eustacia; evening; eyes; face; fairway; feel; fire; form; furze; girl; good; grandfer; half; hand; having; head; heath; home; hour; house; husband; lay; left; life; light; look; love; man; mind; minutes; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; path; place; present; reddleman; room; round; saw; sort; thing; thomasin; thought; time; tis; venn; voice; walk; want; way; wife; wildeve; window; wish; woman; words; world; yeobright; yes cache: 17500.txt plain text: 17500.txt item: #2 of 11 id: 2662 author: Hardy, Thomas title: Under the Greenwood Tree; Or, The Mellstock Quire A Rural Painting of the Dutch School date: None words: 59888 flesch: 80 summary: Is that thee, young Dick Dewy? came from the darkness. Then why not stop for fellow-craters--going to thy own father's house too, as we be, and knowen us so well? Dick Dewy faced about and continued his tune in an under-whistle, implying that the business of his mouth could not be checked at a moment's notice by the placid emotion of friendship. keywords: church; come; day; dewy; dick; door; eyes; face; fancy; father; geoffrey; good; hand; head; house; know; leaf; left; look; love; man; maybold; mellstock; mind; miss; morning; mrs; penny; people; reuben; right; round; school; shiner; sir; thing; thought; time; tis; tranter; vicar; voice; want; way; william; wish; woman; words cache: 2662.txt plain text: 2662.txt item: #3 of 11 id: 27 author: Hardy, Thomas title: Far from the Madding Crowd date: None words: 140304 flesch: 83 summary: Ah! Said that, did he? Yes; and he said there was a strong likeness be- tween himself and the other young man, so that some- times people mistook them -- -- Liddy, for Heaven's sake stop your talking! said Bathsheba, with the nervous petulance that comes from worrying perceptions. They were all carefully packed in paper, and each package was labelled Bathsheba Boldwood. keywords: -and; -that; -the; air; bathsheba; boldwood; casterbridge; chapter; church; close; coggan; coming; course; day; door; end; everdene; eyes; face; fanny; farmer; feeling; fire; form; gabriel; gabriel oak; gate; girl; good; got; great; half; hand; having; head; heart; hill; home; hour; house; husband; joseph; kind; left; liddy; life; long; looking; love; ma'am; man; matter; men; mind; miss; mistress; moment; morning; nature; night; oak; people; place; poorgrass; position; road; room; round; said; sergeant; sheep; shepherd; sir; sky; tall; thing; thought; time; tis; troy; true; voice; want; way; weatherbury; wife; wish; woman; words; world; years cache: 27.txt plain text: 27.txt item: #4 of 11 id: 2864 author: Hardy, Thomas title: The Trumpet-Major date: None words: 117052 flesch: 84 summary: Another person besides John saw Bob go. Bob kissed Anne, and there was no affectation in her receiving that mark of affection as she said through her tears, 'God bless you!' keywords: anne; anne garland; bob; bob loveday; brother; captain; come; coming; course; cripplestraw; david; dear; derriman; door; end; eyes; face; father; festus; garden; garland; girl; good; half; hand; head; home; house; john; john loveday; king; left; letter; look; looking; loveday; major; man; matilda; men; miller; miller loveday; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; overcombe; place; present; road; room; round; saw; sir; standing; thing; thought; time; tis; trumpet; uncle; want; way; window; woman; years; young cache: 2864.txt plain text: 2864.txt item: #5 of 11 id: 3047 author: Hardy, Thomas title: Life's Little Ironies A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters date: None words: 79828 flesch: 80 summary: No doubt we might get to love each other as warmly as we did in old times?' The only exhibition that ever made, or ever will make, any impression upon my imagination was the first of the series, the parent of them all, and now a thing of old times--the Great Exhibition of 1851, in Hyde Park, London. keywords: anna; child; church; clerk; day; days; dear; door; emily; end; evening; eyes; face; father; girl; good; half; hand; harnham; heart; home; hour; house; husband; james; joanna; joshua; left; letter; life; man; millborne; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; night; old; pa'son; people; phyllis; place; poor; room; round; saw; think; thought; time; tony; town; village; way; wife; woman; world; years cache: 3047.txt plain text: 3047.txt item: #6 of 11 id: 3049 author: Hardy, Thomas title: A Group of Noble Dames date: None words: 70448 flesch: 76 summary: Thither also came the fair Contessa, whom, as soon as Philippa saw how much she was sought after by younger men, she could not conscientiously suspect of renewed designs upon Sir Ashley. * * * A few members, including the Bookworm, seemed to be impressed by the quiet gentleman's tale; but the member we have called the Spark--who, by the way, was getting somewhat tinged with the light of other days, and owned to eight-and-thirty--walked daintily about the room instead of sitting down by the fire with the majority and said that for his part he preferred something more lively than the last story--something in which such long-separated lovers were ultimately united. keywords: barbara; betty; child; countess; course; day; days; door; dornell; dorothy; eyes; face; father; girl; good; having; heart; hintock; home; house; husband; lady; left; life; lord; love; man; marriage; mind; moment; morning; mother; mottisfont; mrs; night; place; return; reynard; room; sir; squire; thought; time; tupcombe; uplandtowers; way; wife; woman; years cache: 3049.txt plain text: 3049.txt item: #7 of 11 id: 3056 author: Hardy, Thomas title: Wessex Tales date: None words: 82897 flesch: 82 summary: 'Said so--when? 'You see, he's a different sort of young man from most--dreamy, solitary, rather melancholy--and he cares more to be here when the south-westerly gales are beating against the door, and the sea washes over the Parade, and there's not a soul in the place, than he does now in the season. keywords: arm; barnet; children; come; course; darton; day; door; downe; evening; eyes; face; good; half; hall; hand; home; hour; house; husband; left; life; lizzy; lodge; look; lucy; man; mind; minister; moment; morning; mother; mrs; newberry; night; place; rhoda; road; room; round; sally; saw; shepherd; stockdale; stranger; thing; thought; time; town; voice; way; wife; woman; words; years; young cache: 3056.txt plain text: 3056.txt item: #8 of 11 id: 3058 author: Hardy, Thomas title: A Changed Man, and Other Tales date: None words: 89550 flesch: 82 summary: I be an old man, and there's old men that deserve well of the world; but no I--must rest how I can!' To promote that there were other men she might have married offhand without loving them if they had asked her to; but though she had known the worthy speaker from her youth, she could not for the moment fancy herself happy as Mrs. Miller. keywords: baptista; bellston; caroline; charles; christine; church; course; day; days; dear; death; door; duke; evening; eyes; face; father; good; great; hand; having; heart; heddegan; home; hour; house; husband; john; letter; life; long; man; marriage; maumbry; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; nicholas; night; place; present; room; selina; shepherd; spot; things; thought; time; town; way; wife; window; wish; woman; words; years cache: 3058.txt plain text: 3058.txt item: #9 of 11 id: 3146 author: Hardy, Thomas title: Two on a Tower date: None words: 95970 flesch: 78 summary: In marrying Swithin Lady Constantine had played her card,--recklessly, impulsively, ruinously, perhaps; but she had played it; it could not be withdrawn; and she took this morning's luncheon as an episode that could result in nothing to her beyond the day's entertainment. II Swithin St. Cleeve lingered on at his post, until the more sanguine birds of the plantation, already recovering from their midwinter anxieties, piped a short evening hymn to the vanishing sun. keywords: astronomer; bishop; blount; brother; church; cleeve; column; coming; course; day; days; dear; door; end; evening; eyes; face; going; good; half; hand; home; house; lady constantine; left; letter; life; look; louis; love; man; marriage; matter; mind; moment; morning; night; place; position; room; round; sir; swithin; swithin st; tabitha; thing; thought; time; torkingham; tower; viviette; way; welland; window; wish; woman; words; work; world; years; young; youth cache: 3146.txt plain text: 3146.txt item: #10 of 11 id: 3469 author: Hardy, Thomas title: The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters date: None words: 145000 flesch: 80 summary: 'I suppose,' continued Ethelberta, in the quiet way of one who had only a headache the matter with her, 'that he remembered you after the meeting at Anglebury?' 'Yes, he remembered me.' 'Did you tell me you had seen him before that time? 'Only one man,' murmured Ethelberta, in much lower tones. keywords: carriage; chickerel; christopher; course; day; doncastle; door; end; ethelberta; evening; eyes; face; faith; family; father; getting; good; great; half; hand; hear; home; hour; house; joey; julian; knollsea; know; lady; ladywell; leave; left; life; london; long; look; lord; lord mountclere; love; man; matter; mean; mind; minutes; moment; morning; mother; mountclere; mrs; neigh; new; night; people; person; petherwin; picotee; place; poor; position; present; road; room; round; sandbourne; saw; sister; sol; thing; thought; till; time; tis; town; want; way; wish; woman; words; world; young cache: 3469.txt plain text: 3469.txt item: #11 of 11 id: 46839 author: Heath, Sidney title: The Heart of Wessex date: None words: 14001 flesch: 60 summary: Thus it is that the novelist's architectonic settings, and his literal descriptions of natural scenery, make identification a simple task, and lend interest to numerous old houses and cottages, just as they have immortalized a thousand scenes of their author's native land. It is one of hundreds of old manor houses in Dorset, and elsewhere, that have become degraded in the social scale to the status of a farmhouse. keywords: castle; church; country; dorchester; dorset; harbour; hardy; high; home; house; illustration; king; land; left; lulworth; novels; place; poole; road; roman; sea; south; stone; thomas; town; village; walk; way; wessex; weymouth cache: 46839.txt plain text: 46839.txt