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The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in uncontrollable agitation.
"I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out.
I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put his pipe down upon the mantelpiece.
A few seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again and put his glass in his pocket.
Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat.
Lestrade and I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a definite end.
He sprang from his chair and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and unclasping of his long thin hands.
St. Clair had been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it.
Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been galvanised.
We both sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road.
He sprang round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of colour had been driven from his face.
A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger.
I sprang from my bed, wrapped a shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor.
I sprang up and lit the lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room.
The instant that we heard it, Holmes sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with his cane at the bell-pull.
He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning across the room he flung open the door.
Colonel Lysander Stark sprang out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch which gaped in front of us.
His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in his grey eyes.
"As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a butcher's cleaver in the other.
The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers.
"And he is a man with a wooden leg?"Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive black eyes.
He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight.
Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and confronted him.
He opened one at random, and stepped upon a warm, hairy body, which sprang up with a grunt.
In a few minutes he sprang to his feet, erect and smiling.
Some one let go of the horse's head, and Tarvin had just time to kick his foot free as the animal sprang forward.
The King looked along the chain of shining pools, the white, rush-tipped hillocks of the desert, and the far-distant line of low granite-topped hills, whence the Amet sprang.
For a long time he did not care to whistle, but rambled aimlessly from one wall to another, looking at the gigantic reservoirs, dry and neglected, the hollow guard-houses that studded the battlements, the time-riven arches that spanned the streets, and, above all, the carven tower with a shattered roof that sprang a hundred and fifty feet into the air, for a sign to the country-side that the royal city of Gunnaur was not dead, but would one day hum with men.
Something sprang out of the darkness where the guard slept, and where the King's fighting apes were tethered; and the horse reared as a gray ape, its chain broken at the waistband, flung itself on the pommel of the saddle, chattering.
Tarvin sprang to his feet before replying.
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