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1  I know that I went back to drink, like the beast that I was.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
2  I had been drinking hard of late, and the two things together fairly turned my brain.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
3  The last six months that she was here she would speak of nothing but his drinking and his ways.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
4  Mrs. Tangey drinks, and our woman has been with her twice when she was well on, but she could get nothing out of her.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
5  I could see that she hated me and feared me, and when the thought of it drove me to drink, then she despised me as well.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
6  Then I broke my blue ribbon and began to drink again, but I think I should not have done it if Mary had been the same as ever.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
7  She took no liquid, as there was a water-tap in the stables, and it was the rule that the lad on duty should drink nothing else.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
8  That was before he broke the pledge; but afterwards he would always take drink when he was ashore, and a little drink would send him stark, staring mad.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box