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  • "That's Audley Court in there," he said, pointing to a narrow slit in the line of dead-coloured brick.

    A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • "That's Audley Court in there," he said, pointing to a narrow slit in the line of dead-coloured brick.

    A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • "That's Audley Court in there," he said, pointing to a narrow slit in the line of dead-coloured brick.

    A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • "That's Audley Court in there," he said, pointing to a narrow slit in the line of dead-coloured brick.

    A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • "That's Audley Court in there," he said, pointing to a narrow slit in the line of dead-coloured brick.

    A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • "That's Audley Court in there," he said, pointing to a narrow slit in the line of dead-coloured brick.

    A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • "That's Audley Court in there," he said, pointing to a narrow slit in the line of dead-coloured brick.

    A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • 'Surely I can,' I answered, gazing out over the broad, reedy, dead-coloured plain, which extended from the other side of the winding

    Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • "That's Audley Court in there," he said, pointing to a narrow slit in the line of dead-coloured brick.

    A Study in Scarlet 1887

  • The poems of West, indeed, had the merit of chaste and manly diction, but they were cold, and, if I may so express it, only dead-coloured; while in the best of Warton's, there is a stiffness which too often gives them the appearance of imitations from the Greek.

    A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

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