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1  To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
2  It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
3  Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
4  Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
5  Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent as this.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
6  Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened it out on the table.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
7  Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
8  I found Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin form curled up in the recesses of his armchair.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
9  Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between puckered lids.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
10  Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in the afternoon.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
11  I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings with Sherlock Holmes.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
12  Sherlock Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
13  Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
14  I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he had listened with the greatest concentration of attention.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
15  I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
16  Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every other consideration that we both burst out into a roar of laughter.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
17  Sherlock Holmes welcomed her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was peculiar to him.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
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