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Up from the level lands below them floated the chime of church bells. Presently they were reduced to one note which quickened, and stopped.
T. Hardy, Jude the Obscure, Macmillan and Co. Ltd., London, 1906, p. 62.
PLACE: Wiltshire
TIME: late 19th century
For many days he haunted the cloisters and quadrangles of the colleges at odd minutes in passing them, surprised by impish echoes of his own footsteps, smart as the blows of a mallet.
T. Hardy, Jude the Obscure, Macmillan and Co. Ltd., London, 1906, p. 102.
PLACE: Oxford
TIME: late 19th century
A mournful wind blew through the trees, and sounded in the chimney like the pedal notes of an organ. Each ivy leaf overgrowing the wall of the churchless churchyard hard by, now abandoned, pecked its neighbour smartly, and the vane on the new German-Gothic church in the new spot had already begun to creak. Yet apparently it was not always the outdoor wind that made the deep murmurs; it was a voice.
T. Hardy, Jude the Obscure, Macmillan and Co. Ltd., London, 1906, p. 153.
PLACE: Wiltshire
TIME: late 19th century
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