1 To rebuild the windmill, with walls twice as thick as before, and to finish it by the appointed date, together with the regular work of the farm, was a tremendous labour.
2 On the other hand there were new-comers, the Manresas, bringing the old houses up to date, adding bathrooms.
3 There was no mirror, at that date, in my room; that which stands beside me as I write, was brought there later on and for the very purpose of these transformations.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 4 My provision of the salt, which had never been renewed since the date of the first experiment, began to run low.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 5 Yet, though quarter-staff play be out of date, what we can in prose we will do for these bold champions.
6 I'm afraid I am a little out of date, and my collieries are like me.
7 Noble it stood alone above a great park, but out of date, passed over.
8 There is a blank left for the surname; and then follows the date; which is within a year before the child was born.
9 The first instinct of an imaginative stranger might have been to suppose it the person of one of the Celts who built the barrow, so far had all of modern date withdrawn from the scene.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 10 Mentally he was in a provincial future, that is, he was in many points abreast with the central town thinkers of his date.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment 11 It was a practice well known on Egdon at that date, and one that is not quite extinct at the present day.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November 12 You will first make a note, Doctor, of the paper and the date.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE 13 There is a date, you see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is rather vague.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY 14 All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of them present such singular features as the strange train of circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS 15 Let me have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and the date of his supposed suicide.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS