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1  He paused a moment, but there came no reply.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
2  I was still so engaged when, in one of my more wakeful moments, my eyes fell upon my hand.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
3  And at the very moment of that vain-glorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most deadly shuddering.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
4  Suddenly and at the same moment, the ebullition ceased and the compound changed to a dark purple, which faded again more slowly to a watery green.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
5  The other snarled aloud into a savage laugh; and the next moment, with extraordinary quickness, he had unlocked the door and disappeared into the house.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
6  At all hours of the day and night, I would be taken with the premonitory shudder; above all, if I slept, or even dozed for a moment in my chair, it was always as Hyde that I awakened.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
7  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 Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
8  I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil; and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
9  The man's appearance amply bore out his words; his manner was altered for the worse; and except for the moment when he had first announced his terror, he had not once looked the lawyer in the face.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
10  I was the first that could thus plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
11  I have more than once observed that, in my second character, my faculties seemed sharpened to a point and my spirits more tensely elastic; thus it came about that, where Jekyll perhaps might have succumbed, Hyde rose to the importance of the moment.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
12  At this moment, however, the rooms bore every mark of having been recently and hurriedly ransacked; clothes lay about the floor, with their pockets inside out; lock-fast drawers stood open; and on the hearth there lay a pile of grey ashes, as though many papers had been burned.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
13  Should the throes of change take me in the act of writing it, Hyde will tear it in pieces; but if some time shall have elapsed after I have laid it by, his wonderful selfishness and Circumscription to the moment will probably save it once again from the action of his ape-like spite.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
14  I believe you fully; I would trust you before any man alive, ay, before myself, if I could make the choice; but indeed it isn't what you fancy; it is not so bad as that; and just to put your good heart at rest, I will tell you one thing: the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
15  I knew well that I risked death; for any drug that so potently controlled and shook the very fortress of identity, might by the least scruple of an overdose or at the least inopportunity in the moment of exhibition, utterly blot out that immaterial tabernacle which I looked to it to change.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
16  Utterson was amazed; the dark influence of Hyde had been withdrawn, the doctor had returned to his old tasks and amities; a week ago, the prospect had smiled with every promise of a cheerful and an honoured age; and now in a moment, friendship, and peace of mind, and the whole tenor of his life were wrecked.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON