1 For, although an ingenious Allegory relating to a butcher, a three-legged stool, a dog, and a leg of mutton, this narrative consumed time; and they were in great suspense.
2 'You'll make your fortune, Mr. Sowerberry,' said the beadle, as he thrust his thumb and forefinger into the proffered snuff-box of the undertaker: which was an ingenious little model of a patent coffin.
3 The success of Mr. Sowerberry's ingenious speculation, exceeded even his most sanguine hopes.
4 His ingenious mind instantly suggested a way by which the baronet could be done to death, and yet it would be hardly possible to bring home the guilt to the real murderer.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 15. A Retrospection 5 If so, it must have been one of those ingenious secret codes which mean one thing while they seem to mean another.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott" 6 He was a man of good family and of great ability, but of incurably vicious habits, who had by an ingenious system of fraud obtained huge sums of money from the leading London merchants.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott" 7 The Editor wanted that explained to him, and the Psychologist volunteered a wooden account of the 'ingenious paradox and trick' we had witnessed that day week.
8 I was to discover the atrocious folly of this proceeding, but it came to my mind as an ingenious move for covering our retreat.
9 Their departure, with the ingenious manner in which they and their sheep were hoisted over the mountains, was a splendid spectacle.
10 "That will attract purchasers," said the ingenious editor.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817 11 The most ingenious is, at times, the wisest.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR 12 It was from this slender capital, enlisted in the service of an ingenious idea, developed by method and thought, that he had drawn his own fortune, and the fortune of the whole countryside.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKE... 13 He was ingenious; he had forestalled Soulange Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the cultivation of rare and precious shrubs from America and China.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH 14 All are ingenious, thou alone art ingenuous.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES 15 There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue Beautreillis, near the Arsenal, an ingenious Jew whose profession was to change villains into honest men.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...