 Yeobright, when he looked from the heights on his way he could not help indulging in a barbarous satisfaction at observing that, in some of the attempts at reclamation from the waste, tillage, after holding on for a year or two, had receded again in despair,...  Belgravia - Page 484by Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 1878Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Hardy - 1878 - 314 pages
...upland of heath nothing better than a frown. But as for Yeobright, when he looked from the heights on his way he could not help indulging in a barbarous...Blooms-End. His mother was snipping dead leaves from the window -plants. She looked up at him as if she did not understand the meaning of his long stay with... | |
 | Literature - 1878 - 968 pages
...the tly-eateu turnips, bestowed upon the distant upland of heath nothing better thau a frown. But ae for Yeobright, when he looked from the summits on...or two, had receded again in despair, the ferns and furze tufts stubbornly re-asserting themselves. He descended into the valley, and soon reached his... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - Adultery - 1922 - 1002 pages
...upland of heath nothing better than a frown. But as for Yeobright, when he looked from the heights on his way he could not help indulging in a barbarous...descended into the valley, and soon reached his home at Blooms End. His mother was snipping dead leaves from the window-plants. She looked up at him as if... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1922 - 534 pages
...upland of heath nothing better than a frown. But as for Yeobright, when he looked from the heights on his way he could not help indulging in a barbarous...and furze-tufts stubbornly reasserting themselves. 205 He descended into the valley, and soon reached his home at Blooms- End. His mother was snipping... | |
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