1 As far as the eye can reach stretches the great flat plain-land, all dusted over with patches of alkali, and intersected by clumps of the dwarfish chaparral bushes.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN 2 Before he could escape from her, the clatter of horses' hoofs told him that they were beyond his reach.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE 3 They had seen no signs of any pursuers, and Jefferson Hope began to think that they were fairly out of the reach of the terrible organization whose enmity they had incurred.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 4 He little knew how far that iron grasp could reach, or how soon it was to close upon them and crush them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 5 If any of you gentlemen have ever pined for a thing, and longed for it during twenty long years, and then suddenly found it within your reach, you would understand my feelings.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W... 6 And even the miserable lives we lead are not allowed to reach their natural span.
7 She was seen one day sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach.
8 She could reach a flitch of bacon or haul a tub of oil with one sweep of her arm in the shop.
9 Perhaps she'll reach the present, if she skips.
10 by means of which we reach the final.
11 The Abbot thanked his sage adviser; and the cavalcade, setting spurs to their horses, rode on as men do who wish to reach their inn before the bursting of a night-storm.
12 No," said the Jester, grinning, "but they may reach Sheffield if they have good luck, and that is as fit a place for them.
13 Next day's march brings them within our reach, and, falcon-ways, we swoop on them at once.
14 The travellers, however, used such speed as to reach the convent of St Withold's before the apprehended evil took place.
15 The only light was received through one or two loop-holes far above the reach of the captive's hand.