brick-feeler

Updated: May 22, 2025

Gradually, however, as the years passed, the City had thrown out a long brick-feeler here and there, curving, extending, and coalescing, until at last the little cottages had been gripped round by these red tentacles, and had been absorbed to make room for the modern villa. Field by field the estate of old Mr.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Beyond the City