1 At present my attention was centred upon the single grim motionless figure which lay stretched upon the boards, with vacant sightless eyes staring up at the discoloured ceiling.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY 2 As he stood, he leaned upon his weapon for support, and yet his tall figure and the massive framework of his bones suggested a wiry and vigorous constitution.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN 3 At the same moment a vague shadowy figure emerged from the gap for which they had been making, and uttered the plaintive signal cry again, on which a second man appeared out of the obscurity.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE 4 Without a glance or a word to the cowering women, he walked up to the white silent figure which had once contained the pure soul of Lucy Ferrier.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 5 Tales were told in the City of the weird figure which was seen prowling about the suburbs, and which haunted the lonely mountain gorges.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 6 Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.
7 She never came out of a shop, for example, with the clothes she admired; nor did her figure, seen against the dark roll of trousering in a shop window, please her.
8 She had given up dealing with her figure and thus gained freedom.
9 And the human figure was seen to great advantage against a background of sky.
10 And the pilgrims who had continued their march and their chant in the background, now gathered round the figure of Eliza on her soap box as if to form the audience at a play.
11 Hands joined, heads knocking, they danced round the majestic figure of the Elizabethan age personified by Mrs. Clark, licensed to sell tobacco, on her soap box.
12 And once more a huge symbolical figure emerged from the bushes.
13 A very fine figure of a man he was, everyone agreed, his truncheon extended; his waterproof pendant.
14 For a moment she looked like a tragic figure from another play.
15 The figure was stiff; but the signature was good for more than that, if it was only genuine.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR