This fixed idea of the rhapsodist was delivered with animated enthusiasm, in a manner entirely declamatory, for he had plainly no skill as a ______.

Here was I thinking you a new-sprung child of nature; there were you, the belated seedling of an _____ aristocracy!

It was the face of a man who was no longer passion’s slave, yet who found no advantage in his ______.

Tess’s voice throughout had hardly risen higher than its opening tone; there had been no ______ phrase of any kind, and she had not wept.

Like all who have been previsioned by suffering, she could, in the words of M. Sully-Prudhomme, hear a penal sentence in the _______, “You shall be born,” particularly if addressed to potential issue of hers.

Her flexuous and stealthy figure became an integral part of the scene.

Such a good man might be prejudiced against a woman who had chosen Sunday, never realizing the necessities of her case. But it was _____ upon her to go on now.

The charms of their subtlety passed by her unappreciated, and she only received them as _____ sounds which meant that anger ruled.

The night came in ... which had already swallowed up his happiness, and was now digesting it _____; and was ready to swallow up the happiness of a thousand other people with as little disturbance or change of mien.

As soon, therefore, as the uniform cloak of darkness without began to turn to a disordered _____ of grays, they blew out the lamp, ...

One continually sees the ______ of the temporary outlasting the _______ of the eternal.

She lay in a state of ______ without volition, and the rustle of the straw and the cutting of the ears by the others had the weight of bodily touches.

My God—how can forgiveness meet such a grotesque—________ as that!

Though unsophisticated in the usual sense, she was not incomplete; and it would have denoted deficiency of womanhood if she had not instinctively known what an argument lies in _______.

When she ceased, the auricular impressions...seemed to hustle away into the corner of their brains, repeating themselves as echoes from a time of supremely ______ foolishness.

She raised her eyes, and brightened somewhat. “I may think myself that—indeed?” she murmured, in piteous ______. “You mean in name! Well, I don’t want to be anything more.”

He looked at her imploringly, as if he would willingly have taken a lie from her lips, knowing it to be one, and have made of it, by some sort of ______, a valid denial.

Tess’s unassisted power of dreaming, however, being enough for her _______ at present, she declined except the merest sip, and then Marian took a pull from the spirits.

Yet such is the ______ slyness of Dame Nature, that, till now, Tess had been hoodwinked by her love for Clare into forgetting it might result in vitalizations that would inflict upon others what she had bewailed as misfortune to herself.