1 He paused, eminent, dominant, glaring from his pedestal.
2 On the summit, hard and clear like an equestrian statue upon its pedestal, was a mounted soldier, dark and stern, his rifle poised ready over his forearm.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall 3 It stood on a small pedestal table with an old dressing-gown of Holmes's so draped round it that the illusion from the street was absolutely perfect.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 4 All was quiet with him, save that a long inscription had appeared that morning upon the pedestal of the sundial.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN 5 The pedestal, it appeared to me, was of bronze, and was thick with verdigris.
6 Then my eye travelled along to the figure of the White Sphinx upon the pedestal of bronze, growing distinct as the light of the rising moon grew brighter.
7 Above me towered the sphinx, upon the bronze pedestal, white, shining, leprous, in the light of the rising moon.
8 I found a groove ripped in it, about midway between the pedestal of the sphinx and the marks of my feet where, on arrival, I had struggled with the overturned machine.
9 This directed my closer attention to the pedestal.
10 It took no very great mental effort to infer that my Time Machine was inside that pedestal.
11 They came, and then, pointing to the bronze pedestal, I tried to intimate my wish to open it.
12 Then, again, about the Time Machine: something, I knew not what, had taken it into the hollow pedestal of the White Sphinx.
13 As I approached the pedestal of the sphinx I found the bronze valves were open.
14 That gives you the exact distance from my little lawn to the pedestal of the White Sphinx, into which the Morlocks had carried my machine.
15 Hester Prynne, meanwhile, kept her place upon the pedestal of shame, with glazed eyes, and an air of weary indifference.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In III. THE RECOGNITION