It troubled her much to see what a great flame a little wildfire was likely to kindle. - Thomas Hardy

By making inquiries he found that the girl's name was Bathsheba Everdene, and that the cow would go dry in about seven days. He dreaded the eighth day.

Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian. But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.

In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire