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1  Lestrade chuckled with delight at having puzzled the famous expert.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
2  "No, sir," said the Prime Minister, with the quick, decisive manner for which he was famous.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
3  At eleven o'clock next morning my friend and I were walking up the famous yew avenue of Holdernesse Hall.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
4  That evening found us in the cold, bracing atmosphere of the Peak country, in which Dr. Huxtable's famous school is situated.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
5  I was, of course, familiar with the pictures of the famous statesman, but the man himself was very different from his representation.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
6  Some little time ago he purchased from Morse Hudson two duplicate plaster casts of the famous head of Napoleon by the French sculptor, Devine.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
7  Close on the heels of these two famous cases came the tragedy of Woodman's Lee, and the very obscure circumstances which surrounded the death of Captain Peter Carey.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
8  I recognized him at once as Stanley Hopkins, a young police inspector, for whose future Holmes had high hopes, while he in turn professed the admiration and respect of a pupil for the scientific methods of the famous amateur.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
9  It is true that the circumstance did not admit of any striking illustration of those powers for which my friend was famous, but there were some points about the case which made it stand out in those long records of crime from which I gather the material for these little narratives.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
10  I find, however, a short note at the end of my manuscript dealing with this case, in which I have put it upon record that Miss Violet Smith did indeed inherit a large fortune, and that she is now the wife of Cyril Morton, the senior partner of Morton & Kennedy, the famous Westminster electricians.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
11  Yes, gentlemen," said he, "it is the most famous pearl now existing in the world, and it has been my good fortune, by a connected chain of inductive reasoning, to trace it from the Prince of Colonna's bedroom at the Dacre Hotel, where it was lost, to the interior of this, the last of the six busts of Napoleon which were manufactured by Gelder & Co.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS