ABLE in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:
Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
 Current Search - able in A Study In Scarlet
1  She didn't seem able to get out a word.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
2  In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
3  Beyond his post the path broadened out, and the horses were able to break into a trot.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
4  All this Jefferson Hope was able to tell him, and in a style which interested Lucy as well as her father.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
5  The rescuing party were speedily able to convince the two castaways that their appearance was no delusion.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
6  That evening Jefferson Hope was taken into custody, and not being able to find sureties, was detained for some weeks.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
7  They lay all the evidence before me, and I am generally able, by the help of my knowledge of the history of crime, to set them straight.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
8  During this dialogue, John Ferrier had stood fuming in the doorway, hardly able to keep his riding-whip from the backs of his two visitors.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
9  After a time they were able to relax these measures, for nothing was either heard or seen of their opponent, and they hoped that time had cooled his vindictiveness.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
10  There are few people, however, who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
11  Not the Inquisition of Seville, nor the German Vehm-gericht, nor the Secret Societies of Italy, were ever able to put a more formidable machinery in motion than that which cast a cloud over the State of Utah.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
12  Here I rallied, and had already improved so far as to be able to walk about the wards, and even to bask a little upon the verandah, when I was struck down by enteric fever, that curse of our Indian possessions.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
13  On the very night after his capture the aneurism burst, and he was found in the morning stretched upon the floor of the cell, with a placid smile upon his face, as though he had been able in his dying moments to look back upon a useful life, and on work well done.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION