1 Perhaps I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET 2 Outside the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered against the windows.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS 3 The wind was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing against the windows.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND 4 He drew up the windows on either side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the horse could go.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB 5 Holmes walked slowly up and down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the outsides of the windows.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND 6 Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP 7 In one of these wings the windows were broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly caved in, a picture of ruin.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND 8 In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey side.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP 9 I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows were thick with the ice crystals.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE 10 A thick fog rolled down between the lines of dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES 11 Large sitting-room on the right side, well furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. A Scandal in Bohemia 12 They were waiting for me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching along the entire front of the house, with three long windows reaching down to the floor.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES 13 My evidence showed that the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, which were secured every night.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND 14 I tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB 15 From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove buttons.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY 16 The central portion was in little better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND 17 All day the wind had screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like untamed beasts in a cage.
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