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1  The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
2  From my position I could look over the case in the direction of the floor.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
3  I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case behind which I crouched.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
4  Those are the main facts of the case as they came out before the coroner and the police-court.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
5  In this case, however, they have established a very serious case against the son of the murdered man.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
6  In the case of the Darlington Substitution Scandal it was of use to me, and also in the Arnsworth Castle business.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
7  It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
8  It must be confessed, however, that the case looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very possible that he is indeed the culprit.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
9  A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at the bedside of the sufferer.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
10  In this case I found her biography sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea fishes.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
11  With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
12  As far as I have heard, it is impossible for me to say whether the present case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
13  Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly digesting their breakfasts at home.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
14  I was already deeply interested in his inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and strange features which were associated with the two crimes which I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
15  There are several people in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in his interest.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
16  Once only had I known him to fail, in the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle indeed which he could not unravel.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
17  From time to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
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