Woodwork and glass gave way before him; but before he got quite through, Gregson, Lestrade, and Holmes sprang upon him like so many staghounds.

He was dragged back into the room, and then commenced a terrific conflict.

So powerful and so fierce was he, that the four of us were shaken off again and again.

He appeared to have the convulsive strength of a man in an epileptic fit.

His face and hands were terribly mangled by his passage through the glass, but loss of blood had no effect in diminishing his resistance.