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" We also measured the thickness of every bookcover, with the most accurate admeasurement, and applied to each the most jealous scrutiny of the microscope. Had any of the bindings been recently meddled with, it would have been utterly impossible that the... "
Pitman's Journal of Commercial Education - Page 51
1903
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Short Stories: Thou Art the Man, the Purloined Letter, Von Kempelen and His ...

Edgar Allan Poe - 1908 - 350 pages
...us comparatively little trouble. We examined the moss between the bricks and found it undisturbed." "You looked among D 's papers, of course, and into...officers. We also measured the thickness of every book-covER with the most accurate admeasurement, and applied to each the most jealous scrutiny of the...
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The Great English Short-story Writers, Volume 1

William James Dawson - 1910 - 334 pages
...us comparatively little trouble. We examined the moss between the bricks, and found it undisturbed." "You looked among D 's papers, of course, and into...officers. We also measured the thickness of every bookcover, with the most accurate admeasurement, and applied to each the most jealous scrutiny of the...
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Prose Literature for Secondary Schools: With Some Suggestions for ...

Margaret Ashmun - 1910 - 314 pages
...comparatively little trouble. We examined the moss between the bricks, and found it undisturbed." " You looked among D 's papers, of course, and into...officers. We also measured the thickness of every book-cover, with the most accurate admeasurement, and applied to each the most jealous scrutiny of...
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A College Course in Writing from Models

Frances Campbell Berkeley Young - 1910 - 502 pages
...comparatively little trouble. We examined the moss 10 between the bricks, and found it undisturbed." " You looked among D 's papers, of course, and into...only opened every book, but we turned over every leaf 15 in each volume, not contenting ourselves with a mere shake, according to the fashion of some of...
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A First [-fifth] Reader, Volume 5

Frances Eggleston Blodgett, Andrew Burr Blodgett - 1910 - 504 pages
...trouble. We examined the moss be5 tween the bricks and found it undisturbed." " You looked among his papers, of course, and into the books of the library...only opened every book, but we turned over every leaf 10 in each volume, not contenting ourselves with a mere shake, according to the fashion of some of...
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The Blodgett Readers by Grades, Book 7

Frances Eggleston Blodgett, Andrew Burr Blodgett - 1910 - 264 pages
...trouble. We examined the moss be5 tween the bricks and found it undisturbed." " You looked among his papers, of course, and into the books of the library...only opened every book, but we turned over every leaf 10 in each volume, not contenting ourselves with a mere shake, according to the fashion of some of...
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Modern Masterpieces of Short Prose Fiction

Alice Vinton Waite, Edith Mendall Taylor - 1911 - 648 pages
...comparatively little trouble. We examined the moss between the bricks, and found it undisturbed." " You looked among D 's papers, of course, and into...officers. We also measured the thickness of every book-cover, with the most accurate admeasurement, and applied to each the most jealous scrutiny of...
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The Technique of the Mystery Story

Carolyn Wells - 1913 - 372 pages
...us comparatively little trouble. We examined the moss between the bricks, and found it undisturbed." "You looked among D — 's papers, of course, and...officers. We also measured the thickness of every bookcover, with the most accurate admeasurement, and applied to each the most jealous scrutiny of the...
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Dramatization: Selections from English Classics Adapted in Dramatic Form ...

Sarah Emma Simons, Clem Irwin Orr - 1913 - 410 pages
...You looked among the Minister's papers, of course, and into the books of the library? THE PREFECT. Certainly; we opened every package and parcel; we...book, but we turned over every leaf in each volume. We also measured the thickness of every book-cover and applied the microscope. THE PREFECT. Beyond...
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Tales and Poems

Edgar Allan Poe - 1914 - 344 pages
...us comparatively little trouble. We examined the moss between the bricks, and found it undisturbed." "You looked among D 's papers, of course, and into...officers. We also measured the thickness of every book-coyer, with the most accurate admeasurement, and applied to each the most jealous scrutiny of...
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