Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
speaker
8,885 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Jul
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.
Appearances
Korec way, which is characteristic of him at times.
In a quarter of an hour he went upon deck seven times, only to descend after a few hurried paces.
I followed him each time, for there was something about his face which confirmed my resolution of not letting him out of my sight.
He seemed to observe the effect which his movements had produced.
For he endeavored by an overdone hilarity, laughing boisterously at the smallest of jokes.
To quiet my apprehensions.
After supper he went on the poop once more, and I with him.
The night was dark and very still, save for the melancholy sowing of the wind among the spars.
A thick cloud was coming up from the northwest, and the ragged tentacles which it threw out in front of it were
were drifting across the face of the moon.
Which only shone now and again through a rift in the rack.
The captain paced rapidly backwards and forwards.
And then seeing me still dogging him, he came across and hinted that he thought I should be better below.
Which, I need hardly say, had the effect of strengthening my resolution to remain on deck.
I think he forgot about my presence after this, for he stood silently leaning over the taffrail and peering out across the great desert of snow.
Part of which lay in shadow.
While part glittered mistily in the moonlight.
Several times I could see by his movements that he was referring to his watch, and once he muttered a short sentence of which I could only catch the one word ready.
I confess to having felt an eerie feeling creeping over me.
As I watched the loom of his tall figure through the darkness, and noted how completely he fulfilled the idea of a man
Showing 761–780 of 8,885 · page 39 of 445
← Previous
Next →