1 They must, he reflected, be awaiting him anxiously, for he had been absent nearly five hours.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 2 His intention had been to be absent a year at the most, but a combination of unforeseen circumstances prevented his leaving the mines for nearly five.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 3 Clearly the murderer had used it to remind his victim of some dead or absent woman.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION 4 As they approached the farm Squealer, who had unaccountably been absent during the fighting, came skipping towards them, whisking his tail and beaming with satisfaction.
5 The Lady Rowena, who had been absent to attend an evening mass at a distant church, had but just returned, and was changing her garments, which had been wetted by the storm.
6 It will not need," said the Lady Rowena, breaking silence; "My voice shall be heard, if no other in this hall is raised in behalf of the absent Ivanhoe.
7 King Richard was absent a prisoner, and in the power of the perfidious and cruel Duke of Austria.
8 You have spoken well, good squire," said the Disinherited Knight, "well and boldly, as it beseemeth him to speak who answers for an absent master.
9 The castle and town of Ashby, at this time, belonged to Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, who, during the period of our history, was absent in the Holy Land.
10 The worst of it was, Clifford tended to become vague, absent, and to fall into fits of vacant depression.
11 And when passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable; warm, live beauty of contact, so much deeper than the beauty of vision.
12 He was paler than Connie had ever seen him: and more absent.
13 But his spirit was grey and absent, he was not there for her.
14 They left England with the probability of being nearly a twelvemonth absent.
15 Edmund was absent at this time, or the evil would have been earlier remedied.