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1  I thought it best to change the topic.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  When he comes, he will advise us for the best.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
3  'You had best tell me all about it now, I said.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
4  'Your best way is to make a clean breast of the facts, I answered.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
5  I drove along slowly, weighing in my own mind what it was best to do.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN ...
6  For a day or two we were busily employed in unpacking and laying out our property to the best advantage.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
7  It ain't easy to talk when your lips is like leather, but I guess I'd best let you know how the cards lie.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
8  Sometimes I followed them on my cab, and sometimes on foot, but the former was the best, for then they could not get away from me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN ...
9  My companion was in the best of spirits, and prattled away about Cremona fiddles, and the difference between a Stradivarius and an Amati.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
10  They'd both been in the party that followed them, and Stangerson had shot her father, which seemed to give him the best claim; but when they argued it out in council, Drebber's party was the stronger, so the Prophet gave her over to him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
11  A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
12  It belongs to my girl Sally, as was married only this time twelvemonth, which her husband is steward aboard a Union boat, and what he'd say if he come 'ome and found her without her ring is more than I can think, he being short enough at the best o' times, but more especially when he has the drink.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR