Sentence Examples

1. The polished gentleman disappeared to give place to the bank robber.
2. Fix, left alone, was more impatient than ever, having a presentiment that the robber was on board the Mongolia.
3. His photograph, which was hung with those of the rest of the members at the Reform Club, was minutely examined, and it betrayed, feature by feature, the description of the robber which had been provided to the police.
4. He had resolved to follow the supposed robber to Calcutta, and farther, if necessary.
5. He made up his mind that the robber had stopped somewhere on the route and taken refuge in the southern provinces.
6. Fix still nourished hopes that the robber would not, after all, leave the two thousand pounds behind him, but would decide to serve out his week in jail, and issued forth on Mr.
7. He made himself known as a London detective, told his business at Bombay, and the position of affairs relative to the supposed robber, and nervously asked if a warrant had arrived from London.
8. This was Fix, one of the detectives who had been dispatched from England in search of the bank robber it was his task to narrowly watch every passenger who arrived at Suez, and to follow up all who seemed to be suspicious characters, or bore a resemblance to the description of the criminal, which he had received two days before from the police headquarters at London.
9. An involuntary motion of surprise nearly escaped him, for the description in the passport was identical with that of the bank robber which he had received from Scotland Yard.
10. Fogg had already spent more than five thousand pounds on the way, and the percentage of the sum recovered from the bank robber promised to the detectives, was rapidly diminishing.