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1  Then he was absolutely untiring and indefatigable.
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ContextHighlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
2  It was absolutely necessary to do it in the open air.
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ContextHighlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
3  We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage.
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ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
4  I should wish to make it an absolute specialty, but, of course, a man must take what he can get at first.
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ContextHighlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
5  It was absolutely certain, therefore, in spite of her denial, that she must know something of the matter.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
6  There was absolutely nothing in their mutual relations to prepare people for the tragedy which was to follow.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
7  The face which she turned towards us was of the strangest livid tint, and the features were absolutely devoid of any expression.
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ContextHighlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
8  She stared at us with defiant eyes, and then, suddenly recognising me, an expression of absolute astonishment came over her face.
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ContextHighlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
9  Of these the first and second were extremely condensed, while the last is, as I shall now show, an absolute perversion of the facts.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
10  And I think that your time will not be misspent, for there are points about the case which promise to make it an absolutely unique one.
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ContextHighlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
11  They saw that I must know all about it, you see, and the sudden change from absolute security to complete despair made them perfectly desperate.
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ContextHighlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
12  I alone know the absolute truth of the matter, and I am satisfied that the time has come when no good purpose is to be served by its suppression.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
13  The wound upon the dead man was, as I was able to determine with absolute confidence, fired from a revolver at the distance of something over four yards.
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ContextHighlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
14  As there were no indications of bootmarks about this ditch, I was absolutely sure not only that the Cunninghams had again lied, but that there had never been any unknown man upon the scene at all.
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ContextHighlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
15  For a whole day my companion had rambled about the room with his chin upon his chest and his brows knitted, charging and recharging his pipe with the strongest black tobacco, and absolutely deaf to any of my questions or remarks.
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ContextHighlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
16  That he may be safely trusted to do, for although he is absolutely devoid of reason, he is as tenacious as a bulldog when he once understands what he has to do, and, indeed, it is just this tenacity which has brought him to the top at Scotland Yard.
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ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
17  I knocked him down, and the police have him in custody; but I can tell you with the most absolute confidence that no possible connection will ever be traced between the gentleman upon whose front teeth I have barked my knuckles and the retiring mathematical coach, who is, I daresay, working out problems upon a blackboard ten miles away.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
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