THE D'URBERVILLES in Classic Quotes

1  This first floor, containing Mrs Brooks's best apartments, had been taken by the week by the d'Urbervilles.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7 Fulfilment: LVI

2  Not long after one o'clock there was a slight creak in the darkened farmhouse once the mansion of the d'Urbervilles.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVII

3  The dairy called Talbothays, for which she was bound, stood not remotely from some of the former estates of the d'Urbervilles, near the great family vaults of her granddames and their powerful husbands.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2 Maiden No More: XV

4  If before going to the d'Urbervilles' she had vigorously moved under the guidance of sundry gnomic texts and phrases known to her and to the world in general, no doubt she would never have been imposed on.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2 Maiden No More: XV

5  Under the hill, and just ahead of them, was the half-dead townlet of their pilgrimage, Kingsbere, where lay those ancestors of whom her father had spoken and sung to painfulness: Kingsbere, the spot of all spots in the world which could be considered the d'Urbervilles' home, since they had resided there for full five hundred years.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6 The Convert: LII

6  The descendants of these bygone owners felt it almost as a slight to their family when the house which had so much of their affection, had cost so much of their forefathers' money, and had been in their possession for several generations before the d'Urbervilles came and built here, was indifferently turned into a fowl-house by Mrs Stoke-d'Urberville as soon as the property fell into hand according to law.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: IX