1 My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE 2 The man is by trade a conjurer and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man 3 He is a harmless enough fellow, Parker by name, a garroter by trade, and a remarkable performer upon the jew's-harp.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 4 When these nightly duties were performed there was nothing left to do but to bring in the tin candlestick from the passage, light the candle and blow out the lamp.
5 Both bowed to the inexorable truth: they knew that Zeena never changed her mind, and that in her case a resolve once taken was equivalent to an act performed.
6 The Baptist and Methodist ministers who performed them had no set prayers but extemporized as the circumstances demanded and seldom stopped before all mourners were in tears and the bereaved feminine relatives screaming with grief.
7 But the fagged whale abated his speed, and blindly altering his course, went round the stern of the ship towing the two boats after him, so that they performed a complete circuit.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ... 8 A little girl performed a skirt dance in the center of the floor.
9 One brought his flute and another his violin, while there were some who sang and a number who performed upon the piano with various degrees of taste and agility.
10 As he performed this office, he whispered his reviving hopes in the ears of the trembling females, who, through dread of encountering the savage countenances of their captors, seldom raised their eyes from the ground.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10 11 On his left, the withes which bound her to a pine, performed that office for Alice which her trembling limbs refused, and alone kept her fragile form from sinking.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11 12 Still, his too-conscious ears performed their ungrateful duty, as if to warn him of some lurking danger.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 19 13 The scout, remembering only his own sturdy and iron nature, had probably exacted a task that David, under no circumstances, could have performed.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 22 14 Heyward was far from regretting that his mummeries were to be performed on one who was much too ill to take an interest in their failure or success.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24 15 When these acts of affection and respect were performed, the chiefs drew back again to their several places, and silence reigned in the whole encampment.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28