1 "That's Audley Court in there," he said, pointing to a narrow slit in the line of dead-coloured brick.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL 2 Giles slit the flap of an apparently business document.
3 But the night-dress was slit almost in two.
4 There was no slit through which a knife could be passed to raise the bar.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND 5 His pulse was feeble and intermittent, but his breathing grew longer, and there was a little shivering of his eyelids, which showed a thin white slit of ball beneath.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk 6 The swing skylights above the saloon table had been a bit open, and they had fired on us through the slit.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott" 7 The first ones had been caused by some one forcing an instrument through the slit between the sashes, and the second by the catch being pressed back.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty 8 I had closed the slit between the curtains as Milverton's face had turned in our direction, but now I ventured very carefully to open it once more.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON 9 Melanie's eyes opened a slit and then, as if having satisfied herself that it was really Scarlett, she closed them again.
10 She lay back, looking about the poor slit of a room with a renewal of physical distaste.
11 There was a hole or slit in the middle of this mat, as you see the same in South American ponchos.
12 Neither squeals of hogs nor tears of visitors made any difference to them; one by one they hooked up the hogs, and one by one with a swift stroke they slit their throats.
13 It was furiously slit and slashed by the knifelike fire from the rifles.
14 When I came down again, I found Joe and Orlick sweeping up, without any other traces of discomposure than a slit in one of Orlick's nostrils, which was neither expressive nor ornamental.
15 I had fallen into my serene state one evening, when we heard a letter dropped through the slit in the said door, and fall on the ground.