1 About midnight Tom arrived with a boiled ham and a few trifles, and stopped in a dense undergrowth on a small bluff overlooking the meeting-place.
2 It was answered from under the bluff.
3 Then Tom tumbled his ham over the bluff and let himself down after it, tearing both skin and clothes to some extent in the effort.
4 There was an easy, comfortable path along the shore under the bluff, but it lacked the advantages of difficulty and danger so valued by a pirate.
5 I fetched the shore a half a mile above the village, and then went scooting along the bluff bank in the easy water.
6 On reaching the base of the bluff they halted, and held a short council among themselves.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN 7 You said nothing so well, Sir Knight, I will be sworn, when you held drunken vespers with the bluff Hermit.
8 This was addressed to a bluff old fellow, in a striped waistcoat, who was standing by the bar.
9 He was kind to her also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they seemed to be a happy couple.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES 10 But they were set among elms and lindens on a bluff which looked across the lake to fields of ripened wheat sloping up to green woods.
11 She was jarred out of her ecstasy as the bob-sled bumped up the steep road to the bluff where stood the cottages.
12 Its panelled front was in the likeness of a ship's bluff bows, and the Holy Bible rested on a projecting piece of scroll work, fashioned after a ship's fiddle-headed beak.
13 He stands before me again, his bluff hairy face irradiating with a joyful love and pride, for which I can find no description.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE 14 I saw her innocently kiss her chosen husband on the cheek, and creep close to his bluff form as if it were her best support.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE 15 And before the bluff, kind-hearted man the shadow seemed less dark.