1 "Coming immediately," said the clerk; and two minutes later there did actually appear in the doorway the large figure of an old solicitor who had been consulting with the lawyer himself.
2 He felt this frequently as he talked to his most good-natured solicitor.
3 This solicitor did, it seemed, everything possible, and strained every nerve to get him out of his difficulties.
4 "I tell you what you might try," he said more than once; "go to so-and-so and so-and-so," and the solicitor drew up a regular plan for getting round the fatal point that hindered everything.
5 That no one seemed to know; the solicitor certainly did not know.
6 The forenoon was a dreary time, but at noon the solicitor came: Mr. Marquand, of Wholeman, Sons, Marquand & Lidderdale.
7 But you are a solicitor and the Incorporated Law Society might tell you that you should have known better.
8 You might have entered a solicitor's office.
9 Here's a whacking letter from the family solicitor.
10 It's a fine thing for you, says my solicitor.
11 At one time he was a solicitor's clerk in our town.
12 The solicitor addressed me as he descended the stair.
13 A Mr. Whymper, a solicitor living in Willingdon, had agreed to act as intermediary between Animal Farm and the outside world, and would visit the farm every Monday morning to receive his instructions.
14 He was a solicitor and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new premises were ready.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE 15 said he to Ali, who came immediately, "take that to my solicitor."
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 90. The Meeting.