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1  They were all engaged for the evening.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
2  Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely that he will be back before evening.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
3  Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here again before evening.
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ContextHighlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
4  I shall be busy this afternoon, and shall probably return to London by the evening train.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
5  He thought no more of the matter until he heard in the evening of the tragedy that had occurred.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
6  Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency and have this put in the evening papers.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
7  I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
8  He would rather walk with me in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to be conspicuous.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
9  As evening drew in, the storm grew higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in the chimney.
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ContextHighlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
10  All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in the evening before I returned to Baker Street.
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ContextHighlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
11  Hitherto his orgies had always been confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and shattered, in the evening.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
12  To do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers.
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ContextHighlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
13  The devil knows best what he said, but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing him nearly every evening.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
14  But I shall come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I should like to see the solution of so tangled a business.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
15  Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found either upon his person or in his rooms.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
16  I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary Sutherland.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
17  It is likely that we should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so secret.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
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