The most vigorous expression of a resolution does not always coincide with the greatest vigour of the resolution itself. It is often flung out as a s… - Thomas Hardy

"I wish I could say courteous flatteries to you," the farmer continued in an easier tone, "and put my rugged feeling into a graceful shape: but I have neither power nor patience to learn such things."

Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.

In fact, precisely at this transitional point of its nightly roll into darkness the great and particular glory of the Egdon waste began, and nobody could be said to understand the heath who had not been there at such a time. It could best be felt when it could not clearly be seen, its complete effect and explanation lying in this and the succeeding hours before the next dawn; then, and only then, did it tell its true tale.