1 It was a fine, clear, January day, wet under foot where the frost had melted, but cloudless overhead; and the Regent's Park was full of winter chirrupings and sweet with spring odours.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 2 And next moment, with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE 3 Poole disinterred the axe from under a stack of packing straw; the candle was set upon the nearest table to light them to the attack; and they drew near with bated breath to where that patient foot was still going up and down, up and down, in the quiet of the night.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT 4 And when at last, thinking the driver had begun to grow suspicious, he discharged the cab and ventured on foot, attired in his misfitting clothes, an object marked out for observation, into the midst of the nocturnal passengers, these two base passions raged within him like a tempest.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 5 Hosts loved to detain the dry lawyer, when the light-hearted and the loose-tongued had already their foot on the threshold; they liked to sit a while in his unobtrusive company, practising for solitude, sobering their minds in the man's rich silence after the expense and strain of gaiety.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE 6 Mr. Utterson's nerves, at this unlooked-for termination, gave a jerk that nearly threw him from his balance; but he re-collected his courage and followed the butler into the laboratory building and through the surgical theatre, with its lumber of crates and bottles, to the foot of the stair.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT 7 The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot, I saw my life as a whole: I followed it up from the days of childhood, when I had walked with my father's hand, and through the self-denying toils of my professional life, to arrive again and again, with the same sense of unreality, at the damned horrors of the evening.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContextHighlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE