1 He saw his chance and he took it.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty 2 But at last he thought he saw his chance.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty 3 Your leaving the room gave him the chance he wanted.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty 4 Now and again, however, it chanced that even when he erred, the truth was still discovered.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face 5 But for the happy chance of the gold stuffing, your suspicions would probably never have been aroused.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk 6 But when chance threw you in my way, Jack, and I learned to love you, I feared to tell you about my child.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face 7 I had my chance, and, starting from that point, I have woven my net round him until now it is all ready to close.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem 8 It was in vain that our guide assured him that a fall of stones was a common chance in the spring-time at that spot.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem 9 Our only chance of safety lay in making a clean job of it, said he, and he would not leave a tongue with power to wag in a witness-box.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott" 10 The question now is whether we should take a premature lunch here, or run our chance of starving before we reach the buffet at Newhaven.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem 11 A glance showed him that chance had put in his way a State document of immense value, and in an instant he had thrust it into his pocket and was gone.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty 12 My companion was a powerful, broad-shouldered young fellow, and, apart from the weapon, I should not have had the slightest chance in a struggle with him.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter 13 I chose the place where the three fir-trees stand, and behind their screen I got over without the least chance of any one in the house being able to see me.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty 14 It was our only chance, for we could not hope to fight our way out with all the women and children, so I volunteered to go out and to warn General Neill of our danger.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man 15 The Inspector was about to tell them the importance which we attached to it when, by the luckiest chance in the world, I tumbled down in a sort of fit and so changed the conversation.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires 16 How he went out to it, and his astonishment at recognising, from the white forehead which has given the favourite its name, that chance had put in his power the only horse which could beat the one upon which he had put his money.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze 17 It is, however, unfortunately impossible entirely to separate the sensational from the criminal, and a chronicler is left in the dilemma that he must either sacrifice details which are essential to his statement and so give a false impression of the problem, or he must use matter which chance, and not choice, has provided him with.
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