The Return of the Native

by Thomas Hardy

those which make not quite a ...

There would have been the same inequality of lot,

She had pagan eyes, full of nocturnal mysteries, and their light, as it came and went, and came again, was partially hampered by their oppressive lids and lashes; and of these the under lid was much fuller than it usually is with English women. This enabled her to indulge in reverie without seeming to do so—she might have been believed capable of sleeping without closing them up.

To one of middle age the countenance was that of a young man, though a youth might hardly have seen any necessity for the term of immaturity.

one of those faces which convey less the idea of so many years as its age than of so much experience as its store.

Jared, Mahalaleel, and the rest of the ...

"A handsome man." Had his brain unfolded under sharper contours they would have said, "A thoughtful man."

He already showed that thought is a disease of flesh,

indirectly bore evidence that ideal physical beauty is incompatible with emotional development and a full recognition of the coil of things.

Eustacia once more lifted her deep stormy eyes to the moonlight, and, sighing that tragic sigh of hers which was so much like a shudder, entered the shadow of the roof.