1 There was still a glowing pile of wood ashes there, but it had evidently not been tended since his departure.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 2 Seizing a half-consumed piece of wood from the smouldering fire, he blew it into a flame, and proceeded with its help to examine the little camp.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 3 "Touch wood," she added, tapping the table.
4 "Touch wood; touch earth; Antaeus," he muttered, bringing the scattered bits together.
5 Pale husks had stuck in their hair, and it was easy to run a splinter of wood into the fingers.
6 Countless beetles and insects of various sorts burrowed in the dry wood.
7 It was an opening in a dark wood, where some felled trees lay, and where she would sit watching the fallen leaves of last year, as she had watched the falling ashes at home.
8 As she sat looking straight before her, across the changing lights upon the grass into the darkness of the wood beyond, he saw in her face her application of his very distinctly uttered words.
9 The wood floated before her, for her eyes were suffused with tears.
10 She thought of the wood, and stole towards it, heedless of long grass and briers: of worms, snails, and slugs, and all the creeping things that be.
11 Mrs. Sparsit saw her out of the wood, and saw her enter the house.
12 The wood is quite fresh where it gave way.
13 The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and around Rotherham.
14 Having shut the door of his cell, he placed the torch in a candlestick made of wood, and looked around his sleeping apartment, the furniture of which was of the most simple kind.
15 He chose a new and a tough spear, lest the wood of the former might have been strained in the previous encounters he had sustained.