1 Skilful men, of the medical and chirurgical profession, were of rare occurrence in the colony.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneGet Context In IX. THE LEECH 2 There was some shadow of an attempt of this kind in the mode of celebrating the day on which the political year of the colony commenced.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneGet Context In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY 3 We all do that, all the colony over.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 63. A VISITOR 4 I have never know'd her to be lone and lorn, for a single minute, not even when the colony was all afore us, and we was new to it.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 63. A VISITOR 5 In front of her a colony of ants had established a thoroughfare across the way, where they toiled a never-ending and heavy-laden throng.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyGet Context In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian 6 Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY 7 He was a well-known ne'er-do-well among the Italian colony.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS 8 Half a dozen squatters from a degenerate colony in a brush-hidden hollow, planters of potatoes, suspected thieves, came in noisily drunk.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXXII 9 The whale-ship is the true mother of that now mighty colony.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 24. The Advocate. 10 Long ago this mysterious colony quitted Spain, and settled on the tongue of land on which it is to this day.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasGet Context In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 11 I was now on a level with the crow colony, and could see into their nests.
12 My friend has now a whole colony of sparrows, and his flies and spiders are almost obliterated.
13 For every reason, therefore, such guards are as useless as a colony is useful.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliGet Context In CHAPTER III — CONCERNING MIXED PRINCIPALITIES 14 The men had known each other in the colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to settle down they should do so as near each other as possible.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY 15 Was Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR