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| The instinctive act of humankind was to stand and listen, and learn how the trees on the right and the trees on the left wailed or chaunted to each other in the regular antiphonies of a cathedral choir; how hedges and other shapes to leeward then caught the note, lowering it to the tenderest sob; and how the hurrying gust then plunged into the south, to be heard no more. | Thomas Hardy | Far From The Madding Crowd |  |
| The sky was clear -- remarkably clear -- and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. | Thomas Hardy | Far From The Madding Crowd | |
| It is safer to accept any chance that offers itself, and extemporize a procedure to fit it, than to get a good plan matured, and wait for a chance of using it. | Thomas Hardy | Far From The Madding Crowd | |
| It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts. | Thomas Hardy | Far From The Madding Crowd | |
| There was a change in Boldwood's exterior from its former impassibleness; and his face showed that he was now living outside his defences for the first time, and with a fearful sense of exposure. | Thomas Hardy | Far From The Madding Crowd | |
| But a resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. | Thomas Hardy | Far From The Madding Crowd | |
| It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession . . . | Thomas Hardy | Far From The Madding Crowd | |
| Her love was entire as a child's, and though warm as summer it was fresh as spring. | Thomas Hardy | Far From The Madding Crowd | |
| And Troy's deformities lay deep down from a woman's vision, whilst his embellishments were upon the very surface; thus contrasting with homely Oak, whose defects were patent to the blindest, and whose virtues were as metals in a mine. | Thomas Hardy | Far From The Madding Crowd | |
| There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. | Thomas Hardy | Far From The Madding Crowd | |
