1 There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL 2 His occupation tended to isolate him, and isolated he was mostly seen to be.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 3 The ladies stood in unrelated attitudes calculated to isolate their effects, and the men hung about them as irrelevantly as stage heroes whose tailors are named in the programme.
4 A sense of isolation intensified the family tie, a sense of the weakness of their position, a sense of defencelessness, in spite of, or because of, the title and the land.
5 His isolation was a necessity to him; just as the appearance of conformity and mixing-in with the smart people was also a necessity.
6 And he lay there in his own isolation, but somehow proud.
7 But a pallor of isolation came over him, she was not really there for him.
8 He turned slowly, ponderingly, accepting again the isolation.
9 Stacks Gate, as seen from the highroad, was just a huge and gorgeous new hotel, the Coningsby Arms, standing red and white and gilt in barbarous isolation off the road.
10 Thus we see her in a strange state of isolation.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night 11 The look suggested isolation, but it revealed something more.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face 12 I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES 13 And I accept this isolation of hatred, without hating any one myself.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 14 Hence the isolation of Monseigneur Bienvenu.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME 15 That slumber in that isolation, and with a neighbor like himself, had about it something sublime, of which he was vaguely but imperiously conscious.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES