1 Mammy muttered darkly to herself as she waddled, taking care that her remarks were pitched too low to be understood but loud enough to register her unqualified disapproval.
2 He looked at her as if her words did not register on his mind.
3 Miss Farish's heart was a fountain of tender illusions, Miss Stepney's a precise register of facts as manifested in their relation to herself.
4 But the words did not register.
5 Then he turned to the cash register, and punched up five cents, and began to pull money out of the drawer.
6 Everything was here arranged in perfect order; each register had its number, each file of papers its place.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 28. The Prison Register. 7 Thanks," said the latter, closing the register with a slam, "I have all I want; now it is for me to perform my promise.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 28. The Prison Register. 8 Of her soon cheering up again, and our signing the register all round.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT 9 Madam,' replied Mr. Micawber, 'it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS 10 You can understand that this register and diary may implicate some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS 11 ON the ninth of January, now four days ago, I received by the evening delivery a registered envelope, addressed in the hand of my colleague and old school-companion, Henry Jekyll.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE 12 The butler was awaiting my arrival; he had received by the same post as mine a registered letter of instruction, and had sent at once for a locksmith and a carpenter.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE 13 He looked up at her with the full glance that saw everything, registered everything.
14 With a woman's now alert instinct for happiness, she registered it at once.
15 An examination of his betting-book shows that bets to the amount of five thousand pounds had been registered by him against the favourite.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze