1 As he spoke, he whipped a tape measure and a large round magnifying glass from his pocket.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY 2 This done, he appeared to be satisfied, for he replaced his tape and his glass in his pocket.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY 3 "Thirty-five only," her father-in-law said, as if he had whipped a tape measure from his pocket and measured it exactly.
4 The undertaker offered no reply to this raving; but producing a tape from his pocket, knelt down for a moment by the side of the body.
5 He had picked from a drawer a little tarnished cylinder, and, undoing the tape, he handed me a short note scrawled upon a half-sheet of slate-grey paper.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott" 6 I could see that it was already a third full of bundles of paper tied up with red tape into separate packages.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual 7 There is so much red tape in these matters.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER 8 She untied the waist tape and slipped it down over her feet, crushing the soft linen folds between her hands.
9 Then she passed the tape measure about her waist.
10 A bit of tape attached to a bell-wire hung at the right of the grated opening.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS 11 If the tape was pulled, a bell rang, and one heard a voice very near at hand, which made one start.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS 12 Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl: skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT 13 It was as much as to say: I have you properly taped, my lad.
14 All these traveling effects of Prince Andrew's were in very good order: new, clean, and in cloth covers carefully tied with tapes.
15 I'll lie down at once, said Natasha, and began hurriedly undressing, tugging at the tapes of her petticoat.