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The Return of the Native
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- ...when the old watering-place herein called "Budmouth" still retained sufficient afterglow from its Georgian gaiety and prestige to lend it an absorbing attractiveness to the romantic and imaginative soul of a lonely dweller inland.
Chpt Pref. *dweller = someone who lives in a place
- Let me look right into your moonlit face and dwell on every line and curve in it!
Chpt 3 *dwell = let attention stay on for a prolonged period
- The wedding subject was no further dwelt upon; and soon a faint diverging path was reached, where they parted company, Olly first begging her companion to remind Mr. Wildeve that he had not sent her sick husband the bottle of wine promised on the occasion of his marriage.†
Chpt 1
- Further ahead were dimly visible an irregular dwelling-house, garden, and outbuildings, backed by a clump of firs.†
Chpt 1
- To dwell on a heath without studying its meanings was like wedding a foreigner without learning his tongue.†
Chpt 1
- At this hour the lonely dwelling was closely blinded and shuttered from the chill and darkness without.†
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- The stack was at the end of the dwelling, and the men engaged in building it were Humphrey and Sam, the old man looking on.†
Chpt 2
- The choice of Captain Vye's fuel-house as the scene of rehearsal was dictated by the fact that his dwelling was nearly in the centre of the heath.†
Chpt 2
- To dissipate in some trifling measure her abiding sense of the murkiness of human life she went to the "linhay" or lean-to-shed, which formed the root-store of their dwelling and abutted on the fuel-house.†
Chpt 2
- She followed him behind the dell of brambles to his wheeled dwelling, into which Venn mounted, placing the three-legged stool just within the door.†
Chpt 2
- On drawing near to the furze-covered bank and ditch which fortified the captain's dwelling he could hear voices within, signifying that operations had been already begun.†
Chpt 3
- The pool outside the bank by Eustacia's dwelling, which seemed as dead and desolate as ever to an observer who moved and made noises in his observation, would gradually disclose a state of great animation when silently watched awhile.†
Chpt 3
- A long day's march was before him, his object being to secure a dwelling to which he might take Eustacia when she became his wife.†
Chpt 3
- Suppose he should become blind, or, at all events, never recover sufficient strength of sight to engage in an occupation which would be congenial to her feelings, and conduce to her removal from this lonely dwelling among the hills?†
Chpt 4
- Venn resolved to reconnoitre somewhat carefully the lonely road which led along the vale from Wildeve's dwelling to Clym's house at Alderworth.†
Chpt 4
- About half a mile below Clym's secluded dwelling lay a hamlet where lived one of the two constables who preserved the peace in the parish of Alderworth, and Wildeve went straight to the constable's cottage.†
Chpt 4
- Being a woman not disinclined to philosophize she sometimes sat down under her umbrella to rest and to watch their happiness, for a certain hopefulness as to the result of her visit gave ease to her mind, and between important thoughts left it free to dwell on any infinitesimal matter which caught her eyes.†
Chpt 4
- Spreading this within the shed, which was entirely open on one side, he placed his mother thereon; then he ran with all his might towards the dwelling of Fairway.†
Chpt 4
- With these words Yeobright went forth from the little dwelling.†
Chpt 5
- Had the dwelling stood in an ordinary road, two persons setting out, one in each direction, might have made sure of overtaking her; but it was a hopeless task to seek for anybody on a heath in the dark, the practicable directions for flight across it from any point being as numerous as the meridians radiating from the pole.†
Chpt 5
- It was a night which led the traveller's thoughts instinctively to dwell on nocturnal scenes of disaster in the chronicles of the world, on all that is terrible and dark in history and legend—the last plague of Egypt, the destruction of Sennacherib's host, the agony in Gethsemane.†
Chpt 5
- Amid the fluctuating sentiments of the day her unpractical mind had not dwelt on the necessity of being well-provided, and now that she thoroughly realized the condition she sighed bitterly and ceased to stand erect, gradually crouching down under the umbrella as if she were drawn into the Barrow by a hand from beneath.†
Chpt 5
- The little gate in the palings before his dwelling continually opened and clicked together again, but when he looked out eagerly nobody was there; it was as if invisible shapes of the dead were passing in on their way to visit him.†
Chpt 5
- He would not allow himself to dwell long upon these conjectures, maxims, and hopes, and at twenty minutes to twelve he again went softly to the stable, harnessed the horse, and lit the lamps; whence, taking the horse by the head, he led him with the covered car out of the yard to a spot by the roadside some quarter of a mile below the inn.†
Chpt 5
- The stateliness of look which had been almost too marked for a dweller in a country domicile had at last found an artistically happy background.†
Chpt 5
- Beside Fairway's dwelling was an open space recessed from the road, and here were now collected all the young people from within a radius of a couple of miles.†
Chpt 6
- IV Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His Vocation Anybody who had passed through Blooms-End about eleven o'clock on the morning fixed for the wedding would have found that, while Yeobright's house was comparatively quiet, sounds denoting great activity came from the dwelling of his nearest neighbour, Timothy Fairway.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(dwell as in: Don't dwell on it.) to think, communicate, or let attention stay on (or return to) something for a prolonged period
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(2)
(dwell as in: It dwells in the forest.) make one's home in; or to live in; or to stay (in a place)
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(3)
(dwelling as in: a modest dwelling) a house or shelter in which someone lives
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)