1 I don't know how it is--such a chatterbox as I am with my tongue, once I hold a pen-- She made a face, screwed her fingers as if she held a pen in them.
2 But the pen she held thus on the little table absolutely refused to move.
3 "And my handwriting--so huge--so clumsy--" She made another face and dropped the invisible pen.
4 So far the letter had run composedly enough, but here with a sudden splutter of the pen, the writer's emotion had broken loose.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT 5 Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 6 She fancied, however, that her request had been complied with, and that the pen she could not have held was in her hand.
7 Fanny," said he directly, leaving his seat and his pen, and meeting her with something in his hand, "I beg your pardon for being here.
8 I am not comfortable enough to be fit for anybody; but your aunt seems to feel out of luck that such an article of Mansfield news should fall to my pen instead of hers.
9 If the inkstand had been where the old gentleman thought it was, he would have dipped his pen into it, and signed the indentures, and Oliver would have been straightway hurried off.
10 The old gentleman stopped, laid down his pen, and looked from Oliver to Mr. Limbkins; who attempted to take snuff with a cheerful and unconcerned aspect.
11 And here Rose dropped the pen, and turned away, as though the very paper which was to be her messenger should not see her weep.
12 Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.
13 She had written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY 14 Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand and a bundle of paper before him.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY 15 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