1 John, cooped up in the valley, and absorbed in his work, had had little chance of learning the news of the outside world during the last twelve years.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH 2 Nor was the fear entirely an illusion, for the barren valley was thickly strewn with trees and boulders which had fallen in a similar manner.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 3 The animal sprang into the air, tottered for a moment upon the edge of the precipice, and then came crashing down into the valley beneath.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 4 The valley in which he found himself divided and sub-divided into many gorges, which were so like each other that it was impossible to distinguish one from the other.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 5 And immediately after these came the newer, pinker rows of rather larger houses, plastering the valley: the homes of more modern workmen.
6 They looked up the shallow valley at the mine, and beyond it, at the black-lidded houses of Tevershall crawling like some serpent up the hill.
7 She indicated the faint light at the bottom of the valley which Fairway had pointed out; and the two women descended the tumulus.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 8 Far away up the sombre valley of heath, and to the right of Rainbarrow, could indeed be seen the light, small, but steady and persistent as before.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People 9 Her course was in the direction of the small undying fire which had drawn the attention of the men on Rainbarrow and of Wildeve in the valley below.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 10 Otherwise the situation was quite open, commanding the whole length of the valley which reached to the river behind Wildeve's house.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 11 Thereupon the contour of a man became dimly visible against the low-reaching sky over the valley, beyond the outer margin of the pool.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 12 When the boy had reascended to the top of the valley he found the fire to be still burning on the bank, though lower than before.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody 13 But on the next, being the day-week of their previous meeting, he saw a female shape floating along the ridge and the outline of a young man ascending from the valley.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 14 Marsh-harriers looked up from the valley by Wildeve's.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 15 She put on her bonnet, and, leaving the house, descended the hill on the side towards Blooms-End, where she walked slowly along the valley for a distance of a mile and a half.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 1 Tidings of the Comer