GROBY in Classic Quotes

1  Farmer Groby had espied the two figures from the distance, and had inquisitively ridden across, to learn what was their business in his field.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
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2  It was not her hard taskmaster, Farmer Groby; it was one in a semi-clerical costume, who now represented what had once been the free-and-easy Alec d'Urberville.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
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3  To Tess's surprise Farmer Groby came up on the machine to her, and said that if she desired to join her friend he did not wish her to keep on any longer, and would send somebody else to take her place.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
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4  She silently walked back towards the summit of the field that was the scene of her labour, so absorbed in the interview which had just taken place that she was hardly aware that the nose of Groby's horse almost touched her shoulders.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
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5  For some probably economical reason it was usually a woman who was chosen for this particular duty, and Groby gave as his motive in selecting Tess that she was one of those who best combined strength with quickness in untying, and both with staying power, and this may have been true.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
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6  They were busily "unhaling" the rick, that is, stripping off the thatch before beginning to throw down the sheaves; and while this was in progress Izz and Tess, with the other women-workers, in their whitey-brown pinners, stood waiting and shivering, Farmer Groby having insisted upon their being on the spot thus early to get the job over if possible by the end of the day.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
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