1 And when she said 'Pop' she made a noise like a cork being drawn from a ginger-beer bottle.
2 Finally, she laid her insensate grasp upon the bottle that had swift and certain death in it, and, before his eyes, pulled out the cork with her teeth.
3 You will perceive," he said, "that the clips are lined with tiny bands of cork to soften the pressure upon the nose.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ 4 The bottle stood near them, two-thirds full, and beside it lay a long, deeply stained cork.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE 5 He raised the cork and examined it minutely.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE 6 If you will examine the top of the cork, you will observe that the screw was driven in three times before the cork was extracted.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE 7 This was the time for Wemmick to produce a little kettle, a tray of glasses, and a black bottle with a porcelain-topped cork, representing some clerical dignitary of a rubicund and social aspect.
8 Of a sudden, he stopped, took the cork out of his bottle, and tossed it away.
9 The little girl sitting at the table was obstinately and violently battering on it with a cork, and staring aimlessly at her mother with her pitch-black eyes.
10 Answering the English nurse that she was quite well, and that she was going to the country tomorrow, Anna sat down by the little girl and began spinning the cork to show her.
11 He tried several times to join in the conversation, but his remarks were tossed aside each time like a cork thrown out of the water, and he could not jest with them.
12 He slipped his arms under the cloak that covered her head, embraced her, pressed her to him, and kissed her on the lips that wore a mustache and had a smell of burnt cork.
13 When they had undressed, but without washing off the cork mustaches, they sat a long time talking of their happiness.
14 No, they hold there a large, round wad of tow and cork, enveloped in the thickest and toughest of ox-hide.
15 And he seated himself at the table; the waiter pulled a cork, and he took the bottle and poured three glasses of its contents in succession down his throat.