1 He has lied to me, the villain, in every conceivable way.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets 2 There were many grave objections to this theory, but it was conceivable.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box 3 It is conceivable that you may even have read some account of the matter.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man 4 These walls are thick, and it is conceivable that his shriek, if he had time to utter one, was unheard.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient 5 The only conceivable escape for him lay in silencing my tongue.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem 6 It was equally conceivable that he had shot her and then himself, or that she had been the criminal, for the revolver lay upon the floor midway between them.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN 7 It is conceivable that the fellow might hold it back to see what bids come from this side before he tries his luck on the other.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN 8 In short, Chichikov touched on every conceivable point.
9 It would seem that the floor was never washed, and that the room was used as a receptacle for every conceivable kind of furniture.
10 Every conceivable subject was discussed, including politics and military affairs; and in this connection guests voiced jejune opinions for the expression of which they would, at any other time, have soundly spanked their offspring.
11 These they placed upon the table, and then ringed them about with glasses and platefuls of every conceivable kind of appetiser.
12 Therefore, though I have considered, and even attempted to obtain, every conceivable post, I find myself incompetent for them all.
13 Met by this difficulty historians of that class devise some most obscure, impalpable, and general abstraction which can cover all conceivable occurrences, and declare this abstraction to be the aim of humanity's movement.
14 Apart from consciousness of self no observation or application of reason is conceivable.
15 The Brahmins maintain that in the almost endless sculptures of that immemorial pagoda, all the trades and pursuits, every conceivable avocation of man, were prefigured ages before any of them actually came into being.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.