1 Sherlock Holmes' earnest demeanour had so far convinced us that we all sat in silence, watching the animal intently, and expecting some startling effect.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS 2 His face and hands were terribly mangled by his passage through the glass, but loss of blood had no effect in diminishing his resistance.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS 3 It had been felt that the existence of a farm owned and operated by pigs was somehow abnormal and was liable to have an unsettling effect in the neighbourhood.
4 The last words had a visible effect upon her.
5 The touch had its instantaneous effect.
6 There was an universal murmur to the same effect, though no man articulated a word.
7 She tried the garden with no better effect.
8 He did add it in effect, perhaps, as he softly moved her scattered hair from her forehead with his hand.
9 It had no effect on Sissy, fact or no fact.
10 The other, similar in effect, to Mr. Gradgrind.
11 The warm and impassioned exhortations of Cedric had as little effect upon his impassive temper, as red-hot balls alighting in the water, which produce a little sound and smoke, and are instantly extinguished.
12 But Higg, the son of Snell, felt most deeply the effect produced by the sight of the countenance of his benefactress.
13 Three of the weapons struck against him, and splintered with as little effect as if they had been driven against a tower of steel.
14 The effect of this apparition on the persons present was utterly appalling.
15 The Church gave her full solemnities, graced with all the splendour which she of Rome knows how to apply with such brilliant effect.