 A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame.  The Strand Magazine - Page 252edited by - 1902Full view - About this book
 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Blessing and cursing - 1902 - 276 pages
...Lestrade gave a yell of terror and threw himself face downwards upon the ground. I sprang to my feet, my inert hand grasping my pistol, my mind paralyzed by...coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle... | |
 | Arthur Conan Doyle - Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) - 1902 - 274 pages
...Lestrade gave a yell of terror and threw himself face downwards upon the ground. I sprang to my feet, my inert hand grasping my pistol, my mind paralyzed by...coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle... | |
 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - 1902 - 340 pages
...downward upon the ground. | I sprang to my feet, my inert hand grasping my pistol, my mind paralysed by the dreadful shape which had sprung out upon us...coal-black hound, but not such a hound , as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst ^ from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle... | |
 | Arthur Conan Doyle - Detective and mystery stories - 1993 - 324 pages
...its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the . HR LOOKKO ROUHO inert hand grasping my pistol, my mind paralyzed by...out upon us from the shadows of the fog. A hound it «.is, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes delirious dream of a disordered... | |
 | Gerald Hausman, Loretta Hausman - Pets - 1997 - 292 pages
...in Dartmoor." There's little doubt that the old Yell Hound, or Yeth Hound, myth was used by Doyle. "A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smoldering fire, its muzzle... | |
 | Peter Thoms - Detective and mystery stories, English - 1998 - 191 pages
...downwards upon the ground. I sprang to my feet, my inert hand grasping my pistol, my mind paralysed by the dreadful shape which had sprung out upon us from the shadows of the fog ... So paralysed were we by the apparition that we allowed him to pass before we had recovered our... | |
 | Arthur Conan Doyle - Fiction - 2000 - 276 pages
...Lestrade gave a yell of terror and threw himself face downward upon the ground. I sprang to my feet, my inert hand grasping my pistol, my mind paralyzed by...coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle... | |
 | Harold A. Winters - History - 2001 - 340 pages
...shimmering ice field with the heads of the distant tors borne as rocks upon its surface. . . . My mind was paralyzed by the dreadful shape which had sprung out...the shadows of the fog. A hound it was, an enormous coal black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen Never in the delirious dream of... | |
 | David Kerekes - Fiction - 2003 - 164 pages
...THE CURSE OF THE PlSSlNG CHlHAUHAUS: PETE, DUD ANO PAUL'S HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES by Martin Jones "A hound it was, an enormous coalblack hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle... | |
 | Robert A. Moss, Matthew S. Platz, Maitland Jones, Jr. - Science - 2004 - 1088 pages
...Watson's description of the final confrontation with the Hound of the Baskervilles is vivid and memorable: "A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smoldering glare, its muzzle... | |
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