65 examples of woodroffe in sentences

They shot meaning glances at each other, and then, as though reassured that I was mystified and uncertain, the man who called himself Woodroffe explained to my companion "I've been over to Newton Stewart with Fred all day, and only got back a quarter of an hour ago.

Mr. Woodroffe is most amusing," declared the bright little woman.

Mr. Woodroffe has nicknamed him 'Sir Putrid.'"

As I expected, Woodroffe did not accompany the party.

When you introduced me to Mr. Woodroffe the other day I had no idea that he was to be your husband.

"Mr. Woodroffe has gone up to town, your mother says.

Woodroffe, much her senior, was her father's friend, and it therefore seemed to me more than likely that Leithcourt was pressing a matrimonial alliance upon his daughter for some ulterior motive.

I tried to question her further regarding Woodroffe, of what profession he followed and of his past.

Martin Woodroffe did not rejoin the house-party at Rannoch.

Had Woodroffe told him of our strange encounter in Leghorn?

" She never once mentioned Woodroffe.

Some inexpressible terror held her dumbshe was affianced to the man Martin Woodroffe.

My resolve was to say as little as possible, for I had no desire to figure publicly at the inquiry, and consequently negative all my own efforts to solve the mystery of the Leithcourts and of Martin Woodroffe.

"Is Mr. Woodroffe back at the castle?

" "I asked you the question, Miss Muriel, because I thought if Mr. Woodroffe were here, he might object to our searching in company," I explained, smiling.

Was Martin Woodroffe playing her false? Just after half-past six o'clock the waiter entered, and handing me a note on a salver, said "Mademoiselle has, I believe, only this moment been able to write in secret.

Woodroffe has an appointment at eight o'clock on the other side of the city, therefore come to me at 8.15.

All I could gather was that Leithcourt was in league with Chater and Woodroffe, and that Muriel had acted as an entirely innocent agent.

We were lying in Malta when there arrived the English yacht Iris, owned by Mr. Philip Leithcourt, and among those on board cruising for pleasure were Mr. Martin Woodroffe, Mr. Hylton Chater, and the owner's wife and daughter Muriel.

"Well," she said, "they were all committed by Archer or Woodroffe and his gangwith accomplices ashore, of courseand never once did it seem that any suspicion fell upon us.

" "Then by Woodroffe?"

"My father suspected Woodroffe of being the assassin in Rannoch Wood, for he knew that he had broken away from the original compact, and had now allied himself with Oberg.

Therefore one evening Woodroffe called, and my father encountered him in the avenue, and admitted him with his own latchkey by one of the side doors of the castle, afterwards taking him up to the study.

A fierce quarrel must have ensued, and Chater was poisoned and concealed, Woodroffe, of course, believing he had killed him.

By some meansexactly how is not quite certainthe police discovered that Dick Archer, alias Woodroffe, alias Hornby, was concerned in the clever robbery of a dressing-bag, containing the Dowager Lady Lancashire's jewels, from her footman on Euston platform, and after a long search they found him hiding at an hotel in Liverpool.

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