Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles, C. 13 - End

adj. • I am not sure that as a conscientious detective my first duty is not to arrest the whole household since my friend's reports are most incriminating of everyone.

n. • The straight, severe face was not a brutal countenance, but it was prim, hard, and stern, with a firm-set, thin-lipped mouth, and a coldly intolerant eye.

n. • You perceive the devilish cunning of it, for really it would be almost impossible to make a case against the real murderer; the hound that was his only accomplice could never give him away.

adj. • Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.

n. • I could endure it all, ill-usage, solitude, a life of deception, everything, as long as I could still cling to the hope that I had his love, but now i know that in this also I have been his dupe and his tool.

v. [transitive] • I think that we cannot employ our time better than by calling upon your acquaintance.

v. [transitive] • You say I have saved your life, but I first endangered it by having exposed you to this fright.

adv. • It has been an exceedingly difficult and most complicated business.

n. • His features were still composed, but his eyes shone with amused exultation.

adj. • We saw there was no sign of a wound and that the rescue had been in time, as our friend's eyelids shivered and he made a feeble effort to move.

adj. • Never have I seen a man run as he ran that night; I am reckoned fleet of foot, but he outpaced me as much as I outpaced the little professional.

adj. • Besides it were the crumbling remains of the cottages of the miners, driven away by the foul reek of the surrounding swamp.

adj. • My friend here has informed me of what you have communicated and also of what you have withheld in connection with that matter, and I wish us to be perfectly frank with one another.

v. [intransitive] • I placed my hand upon the glowing muzzle, and as I held them up, my own fingers smouldered and gleamed in the darkness.

v. [transitive] • Our conversation was hampered by the presence of a stranger, so that we were forced to talk of trivial matters when our nerves were tense with emotion and anticipation of the serious matter ahead.

adv. • You must trust me implicitly and do exactly what I tell you.

adj. • I am not sure that as a conscientious detective my first duty is not to arrest the whole household since my friend's reports are most incriminating of everyone.

adj. • He was exceedingly loath to communicate his plans to any other person until the instant of their fulfillment, partly from his own masterful nature that loved to dominate and surprise those around him and partly also from his professional caution.

adj. • He seems a quiet, meek-mannered man enough, but I dare say that there was a lurking devil in his eyes.

n. • Somewhere in the heart of the great mire, down in the foul slime of the huge morass which had sucked him in, this cold and cruel-hearted man is forever buried.

n. • The great ordeal was in front of us; at last we were about to make our final effort, and yet he had said nothing, and I could only surmise what his course of action would be.

n. • So intent was his face and so still that it might have been that of a clear-cut classical statue, a personification of alertness and expectation.

n. • You have been walking for some months very near to the edge of a precipice.

adj. • The straight, severe face was not a brutal countenance, but it was prim, hard, and stern, with a firm-set, thin-lipped mouth, and a coldly intolerant eye.

n. • Small wands planted here and there showed where the path zigzagged from tuft to tuft of rushes among those green-scummed pits and foul quagmires which barred the way to the stranger, while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire.

adj. • Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants send an odor of decay and a heavy miasmatic vapor onto our faces.

v. [transitive] • Never have I seen a man run as he ran that night; I am reckoned fleet of foot, but he outpaced me as much as I outpaced the little professional.

n. • There is but one place where he can have fled, where he kept his hound and made preparations so that he might have a refuge.

adj. • He seems a quiet, meek-mannered man enough, but I dare say that there was a lurking devil in his eyes; I had pictured him as a more robust and ruffianly person.

adj. • The straight, severe face was not a brutal countenance, but it was prim, hard, and stern, with a firm-set, thin-lipped mouth, and a coldly intolerant eye.

n. • The fellow is a Baskerville - that is evident, with designs upon the succession of the estate.

v. [transitive] • To this post a figure was tied, so swathed and muffled in the sheets which had been used tos ecure it that one could not for the moment tell whether it was that of a man or a woman.

adj. • Its tenacious grip plucked at our heels as we walked, and when we sank into it it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene deaths, so grim and purposeful was the clutch in which it held us.

adj. • Our conversation was hampered by the presence of a stranger, so that we were forced to talk of trivial matters when our nerves were tense with emotion and anticipation of the serious matter ahead.

adj. • To him, the death of his convict brother-in-law may have been an unmitigated relief, but she wept bitterly in her apron for her little brother.

adj. • To all the world, he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; to her, however, he always remained the little willful boy of her own girlhood.