1 It is a simple calculation enough, though there is no use my boring you with figures.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL 2 Then I had a way of checking my calculation.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL 3 As to Tom, he was becoming that not unprecedented triumph of calculation which is usually at work on number one.
4 You are not impulsive, you are not romantic, you are accustomed to view everything from the strong dispassionate ground of reason and calculation.
5 But, Mrs. Sparsit was wrong in her calculation.
6 But the telegraph posts upon this line are sixty yards apart, and the calculation is a simple one.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze 7 But, fortunately, Musgrave, who had begun to appreciate the meaning of my proceedings, and who was now as excited as myself, took out his manuscript to check my calculation.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual 8 It is for that reason I am delighted to see you," continued the abbe, "although you have disturbed me in a most important calculation, which, if it succeeded, would possibly change Newton's system.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners. 9 Another, older and less strong than he, had attempted what he had not had sufficient resolution to undertake, and had failed only because of an error in calculation.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian. 10 That which I had done by the impulse of my best feelings produced the same effect as though it had been the result of calculation.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood. 11 After finishing that calculation, I had a minute's hope.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 113. The Past. 12 I should not have been averse to do so, but that I imagined I detected trouble, and calculation relative to the extent of the cold meat, in Mrs. Micawber's eye.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES 13 These sums, united, make a total, if my calculation is correct, amounting to forty-one, ten, eleven and a half.
14 His business calculation that there was a certain price below which he could not sell certain grain was forgotten too.
15 A rapid calculation showed Ethan that Zeena could not be back at the farm before the following evening.