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1  I have seen his death certificate.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
2  We know that a man is being done to death, and every hour may be vital.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
3  I read death on his face as plain as I can read that text over the fire.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
4  The medical evidence showed conclusively that death was due to apoplexy.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
5  He swore like a madman and jabbed at me with an oar, for he must have seen death in my eyes.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
6  Ay, the white lamb, she might well be surprised when she read death on a face that had seldom looked anything but love upon her before.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
7  When they got out the other day, which was some years before their full term, they set themselves, as you perceive, to hunt down the traitor and to avenge the death of their comrade upon him.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
8  His visitor, on entering his rooms, had drawn a life-preserver from his sleeve, and had so impressed him with the fear of instant and inevitable death that he had kidnapped him for the second time.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
9  He had been taken swiftly to Beckenham, and had acted as interpreter in a second interview, even more dramatic than the first, in which the two Englishmen had menaced their prisoner with instant death if he did not comply with their demands.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
10  She has been married three years, and believes that her position is quite secure, having shown her husband the death certificate of some man whose name she has assumed, when suddenly her whereabouts is discovered by her first husband; or, we may suppose, by some unscrupulous woman who has attached herself to the invalid.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face