1 Even the hens and ducks came, and were at pains not to tread on the chalk marks.
2 Some chalk marks over the waistcoat pocket were the only signs of billiards which I could see in one of them.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter 3 You had chalk between your left finger and thumb when you returned from the club last night.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN 4 You put chalk there when you play billiards, to steady the cue.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN 5 It is a thousand pities that we have not a reproduction of those which were done in chalk upon the window-sill.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN 6 They had been drawn in chalk upon the black wooden door of the tool-house, which stands beside the lawn in full view of the front windows.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN 7 They say he could chalk his billiard-cue with his knuckles.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER 8 There was a bar at the Jolly Bargemen, with some alarmingly long chalk scores in it on the wall at the side of the door, which seemed to me to be never paid off.
Great Expectations By Charles DickensGet Context In Chapter X 9 But there was a quantity of chalk about our country, and perhaps the people neglected no opportunity of turning it to account.
Great Expectations By Charles DickensGet Context In Chapter X 10 From head to foot I was powdered almost as white with chalk and dust, as if I had come out of a lime-kiln.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION 11 Shtcherbatsky moved away from them, and Kitty, going up to a card table, sat down, and, taking up the chalk, began drawing diverging circles over the new green cloth.
Anna Karenina(V2) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In PART 4: Chapter 13 12 She was still drawing with the chalk on the table.
Anna Karenina(V2) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In PART 4: Chapter 13 13 He quickly rubbed out what he had written, gave her the chalk, and stood up.
Anna Karenina(V2) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In PART 4: Chapter 13 14 As I went along the road back to the bridge, I kept picking off little pieces of scaly chalk from the dried water gullies, and breaking them up in my hands.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV 15 I carried the lunch-basket to the top of one of the chalk bluffs, where even on the calmest days there was always a breeze.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV