 With designs upon the succession." "Exactly. This chance of the picture has supplied as with one of our most obvious missing links. We have him, Watson, we have him, and I dare swear that before to-morrow night he will be fluttering in our net as helpless...  The Strand Magazine - Page 245edited by - 1902Full view - About this book
 | Arthur Conan Doyle - Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) - 1902 - 274 pages
...of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh of' ten, and it has always boded ill to somebody. I was up betimes in the morning, but Holmej was afoot earlier still, for I saw him as I dressed coming up the drive. " Yes, we should have... | |
 | F. Andrew Leslie - Drama - 1981 - 86 pages
...before the night is out he will be fluttering in our net as helpless as one of his own butterflies. A pin, a cork, and a card, and we add him to the Baker Street collection! WATSON. But Holmes, if we leave now . . . HOLMES. (Quickly.) Obviously we are not leaving, Watson,... | |
 | Paul A. Bové - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 318 pages
...that before tomorrow he will be fluttering in our net as helpless as one of his own butterflies. A pin, a cork, and a card, and we add him to the Baker Street collection!" But the Detective in the process of lonesco's play cannot make Choubert "catch hold of" the elusive... | |
 | John O'Connor - Art - 1998 - 100 pages
...SCENE 19 tomorrow night he will be fluttering in our net as helplessly as one of his own butterflies. A pin, a cork, and a card, and we add him to the Baker Street collection! He exits, laughing. WATSON looks up at the portrait once more, shudders, and follows HOLMES out. Lights... | |
 | Peter Thoms - Detective and mystery stories, English - 1998 - 191 pages
...predicts to Watson, '"he will be fluttering in our net as helpless as one of his own butterflies. A pin, a cork, and a card, and we add him to the Baker Street collection!' "(140). In the manuscript of 1742 that Mortimer reads, the narrator tries to control the terror and... | |
 | Robert Mighall - English fiction - 2003 - 344 pages
...'before to-morrow night he will be flutrering in our net as helpless as one of his own butrerflies. A pin, a cork, and a card, and we add him to the Baker Street collection!' (139, 140). The metaphor drawn from natural history, coupled with the echo from evolutionary ethnography,... | |
 | Laurie Langbauer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 258 pages
...Holmes says to Watson: "he will be fluttering in our net as helpless as one of his own butterflies. A pin, a cork, and a card, and we add him to the Baker Street collection" (Complete, 750). The collector of antiquities in "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs" is an old "fossil"... | |
 | Marie-Christine Lemardeley-Cunci, Carle Bonafous-Murat - American literature - 2006 - 308 pages
...before to-morrow mght he will be fluttering m our net as helpless as one of his own butterflies. A pin, a cork, and a card, and we add him to the Baker Street collection!' (HB 140) Chaînons manquants L'émergence anamnésique et anamorphotique de Stapleton le naturaliste... | |
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