1 The archer vindicated their opinion of his skill: his arrow split the willow rod against which it was aimed.
2 While the Saxon was plunged in these painful reflections, the door of their prison opened, and gave entrance to a sewer, holding his white rod of office.
3 I fastened the rod on end, marked out the direction of the shadow, and measured it.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual 4 I gave it a last tap, tried all the screws again, put one more drop of oil on the quartz rod, and sat myself in the saddle.
5 Beyond the undeviating barbed-wire fences were clumps of golden rod.
6 The vast white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of fowls, augment the murderous din.
7 The biggest coward I ever knew as called Lyon; and his wife, Patience, would scold you out of hearing in less time than a hunted deer would run a rod.
8 He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 9 Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have been greatly angered had he had a lightning rod to ward off such lightning as that.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN... 10 In thunderstorms, we raised a tall rod of iron by the side of our hole, and we watched it from below.
11 A rod farther on we noted another ear on the ground; and between that creeping mule and town we counted twenty-six ears of corn.
12 Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says.
13 If she struck me with that rod, I should get it from her hand; I should break it under her nose.
14 After the departure of the doctor, he wanted to go with a fishing rod to the river.
15 Then his heaving breast allays its anger, and he says no more; but marvelling at the awful gift, the fated rod so long unseen, he steers in his dusky vessel and draws to shore.