1 I was a fairly good dispenser, so I worked this alkaloid into small, soluble pills, and each pill I put in a box with a similar pill made without the poison.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W... 2 I determined at the time that when I had my chance, my gentlemen should each have a draw out of one of these boxes, while I ate the pill that remained.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W... 3 From that day I had always my pill boxes about with me, and the time had now come when I was to use them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W... 4 He turned it about in his mouth much longer than usual, pondering over it a good deal, and after all gulped it down like a pill.
5 "I will now cut one of these pills in two," said Holmes, and drawing his penknife he suited the action to the word.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS 6 The very pills which I suspected in the case of Drebber are actually found after the death of Stangerson.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS 7 Of the two pills in that box one was of the most deadly poison, and the other was entirely harmless.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS 8 I described Drebber's death to him, and I gave him the same choice of the poisoned pills.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W... 9 Through it, as you know, I came into possession of the pills, the existence of which I had already surmised.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION 10 These two ingredients are mixed in equal proportions, and formed into pills.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 40. The Breakfast. 11 The casket passed around the table, but it was more to examine the admirable emerald than to see the pills that it passed from hand to hand.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 40. The Breakfast. 12 Miss Sarah," said Joe, "she have twenty-five pound perannium fur to buy pills, on account of being bilious.
13 But now we know that these little pills of classical learning possess the medicinal property of anti-nihilism, and we boldly prescribe them to our patients.
14 If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die.
15 How to cure such a dyspepsia it were hard to say, unless by administering three or four boat loads of Brandreth's pills, and then running out of harm's way, as laborers do in blasting rocks.