SUMMER in Classic Quotes

1  Only in summer days of highest feather did its mood touch the level of gaiety.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression

2  It was a sunny afternoon at the beginning of summer, and the moist hollows of the heath had passed from their brown to their green stage.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues

3  They were the mummied heathbells of the past summer, originally tender and purple, now washed colourless by Michaelmas rains, and dried to dead skins by October suns.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky

4  As he watched, the dead flat of the scenery overpowered him, though he was fully alive to the beauty of that untarnished early summer green which was worn for the nonce by the poorest blade.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues

5  It was a fine and quiet afternoon, about three o'clock; but the winter solstice having stealthily come on, the lowness of the sun caused the hour to seem later than it actually was, there being little here to remind an inhabitant that he must unlearn his summer experience of the sky as a dial.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 1 Tidings of the Comer

6  She was a woman noisily constructed; in addition to her enclosing framework of whalebone and lath, she wore pattens summer and winter, in wet weather and in dry, to preserve her boots from wear; and when Fairway began to jump about with her, the clicking of the pattens, the creaking of the stays, and her screams of surprise, formed a very audible concert.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country