One of the pair was Angel Clare, the other a tall budding creature--half girl, half woman--a spiritualized image of Tess,
slighter than she, but with the same beautiful eyes--Clare's sister-in-law,
Steel and wood included, the entire spear is some ten or twelve feet in length; the staff is much
slighter than that of the harpoon, and also of a lighter material--pine.
He hopes that in other and
slighter things he has bettered his own instruction, and that in form and in fact the book is altogether less crude and less rude than the papers from which it has here been a second time evolved.
He was once more as he had been in those wilder days when men made their own laws, and a man's hold upon life was a
slighter thing than his thirst for gold.
The muffled roar of the Atlantic was in his ears, a strange everlasting background to all the
slighter summer sounds, the murmuring of insects, the calling of birds, the melodious swish of the whirling knives in the distant hayfield.
She found that she had been misled by the careful, the considerate attention of her daughter, to think the attachment, which once she had so well understood, much
slighter in reality, than she had been wont to believe, or than it was now proved to be.
As the weeks went by, and he saw her always looking pleased to see him--turning up her lovely face towards him as if she meant him to understand that she was glad for him to come--and going about her work in the same equable way, making no sign of sorrow, he began to believe that her feeling towards Arthur must have been much
slighter than he had imagined in his first indignation and alarm, and that she had been able to think of her girlish fancy that Arthur was in love with her and would marry her as a folly of which she was timely cured.
In face I resembled him, though I was not so handsome; my features were less regular; I had a darker eye, and a broader brow--in form I was greatly inferior--thinner,
slighter, not so tall.
Tulliver was what is called a good-tempered person,--never cried, when she was a baby, on any
slighter ground than hunger and pins; and from the cradle upward had been healthy, fair, plump, and dull-witted; in short, the flower of her family for beauty and amiability.
Morally, as well as materially, there was a coarser fibre in those wives and maidens of old English birth and breeding than in their fair descendants, separated from them by a series of six or seven generations; for, throughout that chain of ancestry, every successive mother had transmitted to her child a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty, and a
slighter physical frame, if not character of less force and solidity than her own.
There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches, and a still
slighter shuffling of women's shoes, and all was quiet again, and every eye on the preacher.
- that this woman was so very artfully dressed from the time of her apprehension, that she looked much
slighter than she really was; in particular, her sleeves are always remembered to have been so skilfully contrived that her arms had quite a delicate look.