Tess of the D'Urbervilles Key Quotes (Finish the Quote)

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John Durbeyfield- 'nobler

skillentons'

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'a mere

vessel of emotion untinctured by experience'

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'spoke two languages:

the dialect at home... ordinary English... to persons of quality'

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'The morning

mail-cart, with its two noiseless wheels'

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Abraham- 'a blighted

star'

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'Stokes?' 'No;

d'Urbervilles'

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'd'Urberville gave her

the kiss of mastery'

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'traced such a

coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive'

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'She had learnt that

the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing'

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'a cloud

of moral hobgoblins'

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'the reaping-machine... a

look of having been dipped in liquid fire'

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Tess- 'Sorrow,

I baptise thee'

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'God's allotment... where all

unbaptised infants... and... the conjecturally damned are laid'

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'Her hopes mingled with

the sunshine in an ideal photosphere'

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'shapely moustache and

beard... of the palest straw colour'

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'had no very definitive

aim or concern about his material future'

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Angel- 'what a fresh and

virginal daughter of Nature that milkmaid is!'

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'both instrument and

execution were poor... second-hand harp'

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'He called her

Artemis, Demeter, and other fanciful names'

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Mr Clare- 'We never drink

spirits at this table, on principle'

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'Her instinct of

self preservation was stronger than her candour'

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Izz and Marian- 'I can't

hate her. Somehow she hinders me!'

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'a certain d'Urberville... committed

a dreadful crime in his family coach'

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'the cock

crew again'

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'fine feathers

make fine birds'

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'like a

cork on the waves'

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'each diamond on her

neck gave a sinister wink like a toad's'

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Angel- 'you were more

sinned against than sinning'

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Tess- 'The baby died’ , Angel- 'But

the man?'

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Angel- 'Dead!

Dead! Dead!'

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Izz- 'She would have

laid down her life for 'ee’’

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'She killed

the birds tenderly'

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'Flintcomb-

Ash'

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'Tess's boots

were appropriated'

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Alec- 'This was once a …’ Shepard- 'a thing of …’

Holy Cross, ill-omen

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Tess- 'He won't hurt

me. He's not in love with me'

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Alec- 'you temptress, Tess; you

dear damned witch of Babylon'.

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'the red

tyrant'

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'If I break down

by falling into some fearful snare'

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John Durbeyfield- 'antiqueerians... asking

them to subscribe to a fund to maintain me'

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'O why have you

treated me so monstrously, Angel!'

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'continual dropping will

wear away a Stone- ay, more- a Diamond'

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Joan Durbeyfield- 'I have never

really known her'

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'The oblong white

ceiling, with this scarlet blot in the midst, had the appearance of a gigantic ace of hearts'

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Angel- 'I think you

are lying on an altar'

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'a spiritualised

image of Tess'

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''Justice' was done, and the

President of the Immortals... had ended his sport with Tess’