1 A feed store, its windows opaque with the dust of bran, a patent medicine advertisement painted on its roof.
2 The mud roads of a few days ago are powdery dust and the puddles beside them have hardened into lozenges of black sleek earth like cracked patent leather.
3 She shivered in the garage while he spent half an hour in deciding whether to put alcohol or patent non-freezing liquid into the radiator, or to drain out the water entirely.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XVI 4 While Kennicott was chattering about a patent swing-door for the garage she saw the swing-doors of a prison.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXIV 5 High times indeed, if whaling captains were wheeled about the water on castors like gouty old aldermen in patent chairs.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 53. The Gam. 6 There was a great gleaming of yellow and patent leather about the saddle and bridle.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen CraneGet Context In Chapter 6 7 Finally, he sniffed the dead man's lips, and then glanced at the soles of his patent leather boots.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY 8 The next day, came the news that the murder had been overlooked, that the guilt of Hyde was patent to the world, and that the victim was a man high in public estimation.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonGet Context In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 9 'You'll make your fortune, Mr. Sowerberry,' said the beadle, as he thrust his thumb and forefinger into the proffered snuff-box of the undertaker: which was an ingenious little model of a patent coffin.
Oliver Twist By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER IV 10 These are the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE 11 I glanced down at the new patent leathers which I was wearing.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk 12 She was one of those people who are infatuated with patent medicines and all new-fangled methods of producing health or mending it.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER XII 13 Oh, very simply; black trousers, patent leather boots, white waistcoat, either a black or blue coat, and a long cravat.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasGet Context In Chapter 56. Andrea Cavalcanti. 14 The company had always taken every precaution to prevent people crossing the lines except by the bridges, both by placing notices in every station and by the use of patent spring gates at level crossings.
15 A flower in his buttonhole, a dazzling silk hat, and patent leather shoes complete the effect.