1 I had the good fortune to seize upon that, and everything which has occurred since then has served to confirm my original supposition, and, indeed, was the logical sequence of it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS 2 To argue upon the possibility of culture before luxury to the bucolic world may be to argue truly, but it is an attempt to disturb a sequence to which humanity has been long accustomed.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment 3 Nothing could be more natural than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. Lestrade of Scotland Yard.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR 4 You have, no doubt, described the sequence of events correctly, but there is one point which you have left unexplained.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 15. A Retrospection 5 Everything which had been disconnected before began at once to assume its true place, and I had a shadowy presentiment of the whole sequence of events.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man 6 However, my friend, Dr. Watson, knows nothing of this matter, and I should be none the worse for hearing the sequence of events once more.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER 7 Now you clearly see the sequence of events, though you see them, of course, in the inverse order to the way in which they presented themselves to me.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS 8 A whole sequence of new thoughts, hopeless but mournfully pleasant, rose in his soul in connection with that tree.
9 "The only thing is, we mustn't have children too soon," he continued, following an unconscious sequence of ideas.
10 A healthy man usually thinks of, feels, and remembers innumerable things simultaneously, but has the power and will to select one sequence of thoughts or events on which to fix his whole attention.
11 As a necessary sequence, I asked him if he would favor us with his company, and he promptly accepted the invitation.
12 Even the sequence of these images and emotions was the same.
13 She recalled a hundred grotesqueries: her comic dismay at his having chewed tobacco, the evening when she had tried to read poetry to him; matters which had seemed to vanish with no trace or sequence.
14 When we came to the discussion of the sequence of our efforts and of the disposition of our forces, there were new sources of doubt.
15 There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there is a perfect geometrical figure in the celestial mechanism.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS