1 For days on end, when the mood was on him, he has been sunk in the deepest gloom.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man 2 I fastened the rod on end, marked out the direction of the shadow, and measured it.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual 3 Tingling with anger, I rushed down and hurried across, determined to end the matter once and forever.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face 4 Be the cause what it may, it was the end of the Gloria Scott and of the rabble who held command of her.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott" 5 I had, then, to find where the far end of the shadow would fall when the sun was just clear of the oak.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual 6 When he was married it was all right, but since he has been a widower we have had no end of trouble with him.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual 7 He had been dead some days, but there was no wound or bruise upon his person to show how he had met his dreadful end.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual 8 And the shadow of the elm must mean the farther end of the shadow, otherwise the trunk would have been chosen as the guide.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual 9 I was fairly at the end of my tether at last, and could hardly find the stamps to answer the advertisements or the envelopes to stick them to.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk 10 Yet the fact remains that the reader, who was a fine, robust old man, was knocked clean down by it as if it had been the butt end of a pistol.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott" 11 There was a bench at the end of the path, and we all sat down while Holmes examined, one by one, the articles which Lestrade had handed to him.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box 12 The lake there is eight feet deep, and you can imagine our feelings when we saw that the trail of the poor demented girl came to an end at the edge of it.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual 13 Having found nothing they tried to divert suspicion by making it appear to be an ordinary burglary, to which end they carried off whatever they could lay their hands upon.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires 14 One piece, about three feet in length, had a very marked indentation at one end, while several were flattened at the sides as if they had been compressed by some considerable weight.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual 15 I cannot be sure of the exact date, for some of my memoranda upon the matter have been mislaid, but it must have been towards the end of the first year during which Holmes and I shared chambers in Baker Street.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient 16 But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual 17 Evidently, as they had dragged the stone up they had thrust the chunks of wood into the chink, until at last, when the opening was large enough to crawl through, they would hold it open by a billet placed lengthwise, which might very well become indented at the lower end, since the whole weight of the stone would press it down on to the edge of this other slab.
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