1 It was all tidy, the corn put in the bin, the blankets folded on the shelf, the straw neat in a corner; a new bundle of straw.
2 And in the corner by the window gable was a shelf with some books, and some from a circulating library.
3 Mr. Bumble rushed to the closet; and, snatching a pint green-glass bottle from the shelf thus incoherently indicated, filled a tea-cup with its contents, and held it to the lady's lips.
4 On a shelf over the pans was a smooth and solid yellow mass of a hemispherical form, consisting of beeswax from the same take of honey.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November 5 It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly filled a shelf with my writings.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE 6 And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem upon the shelf for the interim.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY 7 Kindly hand me down the letter K of the American Encyclopaedia which stands upon the shelf beside you.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS 8 Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he placed his cuttings.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB 9 From my small medical shelf I took down the Medical Directory and turned up the name.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes 10 With five volumes you could just fill that gap on that second shelf.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 11 There upon a shelf was the row of formidable scrap-books and books of reference which many of our fellow-citizens would have been so glad to burn.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 12 There is less dust in this corner of the shelf than elsewhere.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER 13 I looked round, and there was the tin box on the shelf.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER 14 He turned to the shelf above the chimney, groped for matches and lit the one candle in the room.
15 One of the hams sitting on the shelf had been recently cooked and only one or two slices had been cut from it.