1 On one corner of this was stuck the stump of a red wax candle.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY 2 In this particular corner of the room a large piece had peeled off, leaving a yellow square of coarse plastering.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY 3 This was overlooked because it was in the darkest corner of the room, and no one thought of looking there.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY 4 When he turned the corner, he came full in sight of the spot where the fire had been lit.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 5 He ran as far as the corner, and then, seeing my cab, he hailed me and jumped in.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W... 6 He snuffed in every corner, in the barn, in the cow-shed, in the henhouses, in the vegetable garden, and found traces of Snowball almost everywhere.
7 Four dogs guarded his bed at night, one at each corner, and a young pig named Pinkeye was given the task of tasting all his food before he ate it, lest it should be poisoned.
8 If he made a good recovery, he might expect to live another three years, and he looked forward to the peaceful days that he would spend in the corner of the big pasture.
9 The talk of setting aside a corner of the pasture for superannuated animals had long since been dropped.
10 Not a word passed between them as she went to the cupboard in the corner and replaced the hammer, which she had taken without asking leave; together--she unclosed her fist--with a handful of nails.
11 Snobs they were; long enough stationed that is in that one corner of the world to have taken indelibly the print of some three hundred years of customary behaviour.
12 Out of the corner of his eye, as he raised his glass, he saw a flash of white in the garden.
13 Mrs. Manresa longed to relax and curl in a corner with a cushion, a picture paper, and a bag of sweets.
14 Standing by the cupboard in the corner he saw her reflected in the glass.
15 She sat herself on a packing case, and made motions, plucking her dishevelled locks and rocking herself from side to side as if she were an aged beldame in a chimney corner.