1 Leaning back in his arm-chair of an evening, he would close his eyes and scrape carelessly at the fiddle which was thrown across his knee.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 2 She laughed, tapping him lightly on the knee.
3 Then up he jerked it again on to his knee.
4 Old Bartholomew tapped his fingers on his knee in time to the tune.
5 She patted the old lady on the knee.
6 Children, gather round my knee.
7 Isa, sweeping her sewing from the table, sank, her knee doubled, into the chair by the window.
8 Even now, he sat with the glass of wine untasted on his knee, and his eyes directed to a corner of the floor.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT 9 I looked down; my clothes hung formlessly on my shrunken limbs; the hand that lay on my knee was corded and hairy.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 10 After a time he controlled himself, and, resting with an elbow on one knee, and his head upon that hand, could look towards Rachael.
11 She looked at him, on his knee at her feet, with her shawl still in p.
12 He stood a moment most irresolute; then, stepping forward, took her palfrey by the rein, and bent his knee before her.
13 "Answer for thyself, Friar," said King Richard, something sternly; but immediately stretching out his hand to the Hermit, the latter, somewhat abashed, bent his knee, and saluted it.
14 His heart melted suddenly, like a drop of fire, and he put out his hand and laid his fingers on her knee.
15 He broke the cardboard photograph and mount over his knee, and when it was small enough, put it on the fire.