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At the farther end the great churn could be seen revolving and its slip-slopping heard.
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, New York, Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1970, p. 138.
PLACE: N. of London, England
TIME: ca. 1850
CIRCUMSTANCE:
The Froom waters were clear as the pure River of Life shown to the Evangelist, rapid as the shadow of a cloud, with pebble shallows that prattled to the sky all day long.
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, New York, Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1970, p. 121.
PLACE: N. of London, England
TIME: ca. 1850
CIRCUMSTANCE:
Only a solitary cracked-voice reed-sparrow greeted her from the bushes by the river, in a sad, machine-like tone, resembling that of a past friend whose friendship she had now outworn.
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, New York, Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1970, p. 155.
PLACE: N. of London, England
TIME: ca. 1850
CIRCUMSTANCE:
the words of her informant coming to her along with the smell of the cheeses in the adjoining cheeseloft, and the dripping of the whey from the wings downstairs.
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, New York, Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1970, p. 132.
PLACE: N. of London, England
TIME: ca. 1850
CIRCUMSTANCE:
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