1 She rose hastily, without her usual preliminary burrowings and stretchings, and went to the window, hoping to see some neighbor's face, some heartening sight.
2 The musicians after preliminary tunings and whangings broke into "Old Dan Tucker" and Tommy turned to her.
3 Regina's would enable her, when Mrs. Peniston's legacy was paid, to realize the vision of the green-and-white shop with the fuller competence acquired by her preliminary training.
4 But to Lily herself, aware that the legacy could not be put to such a use, the preliminary training seemed a wasted effort.
5 At the preliminary examination, it developed that he had been a suitor of the girl's.
6 The preliminary stage of becoming acquainted was one which he always endeavored to ignore when a pretty and engaging woman was concerned.
7 Marija goes on the warpath straight off, without even the preliminary of a good cursing, and when she is pulled off it is with the coat collars of two villains in her hands.
8 And then, after a few preliminary tries, the whole farm burst out into 'Beasts of England' in tremendous unison.
9 As if a rook had hopped unseen to a prominent bald branch, he touched his collar and hemmed his preliminary croak.
10 Then there was a scuffle behind the bush; a preliminary premonitory scratching.
11 Well, every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for Eyford.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB 12 This brutal preliminary seemed to shadow forth some strange and inexplicable horror in the background.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box 13 Besides this preliminary outlay, he must be prepared to keep himself for some years, and to hire a presentable carriage and horse.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient 14 I fear, my friend, that I shall render myself tedious by dwelling on these preliminary circumstances; but they were days of comparative happiness, and I think of them with pleasure.
15 By this time the preliminary prayer had been offered in the meeting-house, and the accents of the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale were heard commencing his discourse.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XXII. THE PROCESSION