Stables

Examples

• Edith Baxter was within thirty yards of the stables, when a man appeared out of the darkness and called to her to stop. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Talking of mysteries, by-the-bye, says Mr. Franklin, dropping his voice, I have another word to say to you before you go to the stables. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• A groom took the cutter to the stables, and Archer struck through the park to the high-road. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• At the back were trees, among which were to be found the stables, and the big kitchen garden, behind which was a wood. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Meanwhile Jos and Isidor went off to the stables to inspect the newly purchased cattle. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Some of the gentlemen were gone to the stables: the younger ones, together with the younger ladies, were playing billiards in the billiard-room. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• On that evening the horses had been exercised and watered as usual, and the stables were locked up at nine o'clock. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• On the other side were the stables. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• She put her hand up and the boy came out from the Pagoda bar beside the stables. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I was already convinced, or almost convinced, that John Straker went down to the stables in the dead of the night and took out Silver Blaze. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The garden and the stables of course have a separate staff. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He used to take him out of mornings when they would go to the stables together and to the park. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Now you and I, Moore--there's a fine brown one for you, and full of gravy--you and I will have no gray mares in our stables when we marry. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Whose stables do you use at Bath? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• She's the highest-couraged thing we've got in the stables. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• There is a good room under the roof of the stables--with sloping rafters. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Around her throng her eager, plump, happy feathered vassals John is about the stables, and John must be talked to, and her mare looked at. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She dressed herself hastily, called the maid, and set off for the stables. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• On the left ran a lane which led to the stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a public, though little used, thoroughfare. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• And nothing to connect this man Simpson with the interests of the Mapleton stables? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• About a quarter of a mile from the stables John Straker's overcoat was flapping from a furze-bush. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• But his stables had been searched? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• John Straker, who is a married man, lived in a small villa about two hundred yards from the stables. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• We have, however, examined the stables, and there is nothing to connect him with the affair. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Not that she is so, but that the most is made, as the Honourable Bob Stables has frequently asserted upon oath, of all her points. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• There was a commotion in the yard, and a man came running out of the stables to know if he meant up or down. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• What might be called a raft-bridge was soon constructed from material obtained from wooden buildings, stables, fences, etc. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The care of his stables was committed to the lord constable and the lord marshal. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She stood in the old yard of the inn, smelling of straw and stables and petrol. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• His majesty seldom keeps above six hundred horses in his stables: they are generally from fifty-four to sixty feet high. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

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