Tess of D- Quotes- Phase the first

"Natural shyness of the softer sex"

"White garmets, no whites were alike among them"

"white flowers"

"few middle aged and even elderly women"

"Those under whose bodices the life throbbed quick and warm"

"Some had beautiful eyes, others a beautiful nose, others a beautiful mouth and figure, few, if any had all"

"as each and all of them were warmed without by the sun"

"she was a fine and handsome girl - not handsomer than some others"

"mobile peony mouth"

"she wore a red ribbon in her hair"

"i wont walk another inch with ye, if you say any jokes about him"

"The dialect was on her tongue to some extent, despite the village school"

"for all her bouncing womanliness"

"three young men of a superior class"

"uncribbed uncabined aspect"

"implying that he had hardly as yet found the entrance to his professional groove"

"I am inclined to go and have a fling with them. Why not all of us just for a minute or two - it will not detain us long?"

"troop of country hoydens"

"pedigree, ancestral skeletons, monumental record, the D'urberville lineaments, did not help Tess in her life's battle yet"

"his eyes lightened on Tess Durbeyfield"

"Bending himself to a rapid walk, he dismissed the subject from his mind"

"they did not speak so nicely as the strange man had done"

"Tess could boast of were in main part of her mother's gift"

"There was a dreaminess, a preoccupation, an exaltation, in the maternal look which the girl could not understand'

"A sort of halo, an occidental glow"

"but she's tractable at bottom. leave her to me"

"but Joan Durbeyfield must mind that she don't get green malt in flower"

"Tess sat up in bed, lost in a bague interspace between a dream and this information"

"A blighted one"

"from the wound his life's blood was spouting in a stream, and falling with a hiss into the road"