1 Jekyll was now my city of refuge; let but Hyde peep out an instant, and the hands of all men would be raised to take and slay him.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 2 Although a fog rolled over the city in the small hours, the early part of the night was cloudless, and the lane, which the maid's window overlooked, was brilliantly lit by the full moon.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE 3 In the morning before office hours, at noon when business was plenty, and time scarce, at night under the face of the fogged city moon, by all lights and at all hours of solitude or concourse, the lawyer was to be found on his chosen post.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE 4 In the course of his nightly patrols, he had long grown accustomed to the quaint effect with which the footfalls of a single person, while he is still a great way off, suddenly spring out distinct from the vast hum and clatter of the city.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE 5 He would be aware of the great field of lamps of a nocturnal city; then of the figure of a man walking swiftly; then of a child running from the doctor's; and then these met, and that human Juggernaut trod the child down and passed on regardless of her screams.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE 6 The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city, where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles; and through the muffle and smother of these fallen clouds, the procession of the town's life was still rolling in through the great arteries with a sound as of a mighty wind.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER 7 The dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing glimpses, with its muddy ways, and slatternly passengers, and its lamps, which had never been extinguished or had been kindled afresh to combat this mournful re-invasion of darkness, seemed, in the lawyer's eyes, like a district of some city in a nightmare.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE 8 Thenceforward, he sat all day over the fire in the private room, gnawing his nails; there he dined, sitting alone with his fears, the waiter visibly quailing before his eye; and thence, when the night was fully come, he set forth in the corner of a closed cab, and was driven to and fro about the streets of the city.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 9 He went to call indeed; but he was perhaps relieved to be denied admittance; perhaps, in his heart, he preferred to speak with Poole upon the doorstep and surrounded by the air and sounds of the open city, rather than to be admitted into that house of voluntary bondage, and to sit and speak with its inscrutable recluse.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON 10 The figure in these two phases haunted the lawyer all night; and if at any time he dozed over, it was but to see it glide more stealthily through sleeping houses, or move the more swiftly and still the more swiftly, even to dizziness, through wider labyrinths of lamplighted city, and at every street-corner crush a child and leave her screaming.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE