1 The tune changed; snapped; broke; jagged.
2 Now the jagged leaf at the corner suggested, by its contours, Europe.
3 A jagged stone was lying among the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY 4 "It is a wonderful place, the moor," said he, looking round over the undulating downs, long green rollers, with crests of jagged granite foaming up into fantastic surges.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House 5 The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ... 6 On its jagged face was spread-eagled some dark, irregular object.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor 7 It began with a thin scratch and ended in a jagged hole.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS 8 He sat listening to the words and following the ways of adventure that lay open in the coals, arches and vaults and winding galleries and jagged caverns.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 9 He was conscious of failure and of detection, of the squalor of his own mind and home, and felt against his neck the raw edge of his turned and jagged collar.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 10 Had it not been for the red jagged tear in the neck and the clotted black pool that was slowly widening on the table, one would have said that the man was simply asleep.
11 Time seemed to him to be crawling with feet of lead, while he by monstrous winds was being swept towards the jagged edge of some black cleft of precipice.
12 Over the low roofs and jagged chimney-stacks of the houses rose the black masts of ships.
13 She noted that his nails were jagged and ill-shaped from his habit of cutting them with a pocket-knife and despising a nail-file as effeminate and urban.
14 Across the track was a pasture of dwarf clover and sparse lawn cut by earthy cow-paths; beyond its placid narrow green, the rough immensity of new stubble, jagged with wheat-stacks like huge pineapples.
15 They stopped, leaning over a jagged fence made of sea-drift, to ask for water.