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1  The Premier snatched the blue envelope from his hand.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
2  Mr. Holmes, the envelope is a long, thin one of pale blue colour.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
3  In his hand he held a blue cricket-cap with a white chevron on the peak.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
4  His face flushed with anger, and his brows knotted over his blue Teutonic eyes.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
5  She darted across to a writing-desk, unlocked it, and drew out a long blue envelope.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
6  This is it on the blue paper, and these slips, as I have explained, are the rough draft.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
7  Her calm pale face, with dim, wide-opened blue eyes, looked upward from amid a great tangle of golden hair.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
8  Holmes thrust the blue envelope deep down into the heart of them, between the leaves of some other document.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
9  She was enveloped in a loose dressing-gown of blue and silver, but a black sequin-covered dinner-dress lay upon the couch beside her.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
10  His troubled blue eyes glanced at each of us, and finally rested with an expression of blank dismay upon Bannister in the farther corner.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
11  He was flaxen-haired and handsome, in a washed-out negative fashion, with frightened blue eyes, and a clean-shaven face, with a weak, sensitive mouth.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
12  It was above the usual size, with a soft lead, the outer colour was dark blue, the maker's name was printed in silver lettering, and the piece remaining is only about an inch and a half long.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
13  But one could not look upon his cruel blue eyes, with their drooping, cynical lids, or upon the fierce, aggressive nose and the threatening, deep-lined brow, without reading Nature's plainest danger-signals.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE