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1  You've got to put your hands up like this.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
2  Gregson rubbed his hands in a self-satisfied way.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3  The fellow came forward with a somewhat sullen, defiant air, and put down his hands to assist.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
4  I have now in my hands," my companion said, confidently, "all the threads which have formed such a tangle.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
5  The man whom you held in your hands is the man who holds the clue of this mystery, and whom we are seeking.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
6  The mere knowing of his name is a small thing, however, compared with the power of laying our hands upon him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
7  "Cocks and hens," cried the little girl gleefully, pointing at their ill-omened forms, and clapping her hands to make them rise.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
8  It seems to me, Stamford," I added, looking hard at my companion, "that you have some reason for washing your hands of the matter.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
9  "Arthur Charpentier, sub-lieutenant in Her Majesty's navy," cried Gregson, pompously, rubbing his fat hands and inflating his chest.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
10  His face and hands were terribly mangled by his passage through the glass, but loss of blood had no effect in diminishing his resistance.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
11  His hands were clenched and his arms thrown abroad, while his lower limbs were interlocked as though his death struggle had been a grievous one.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
12  Suddenly his followers saw him throw up his hands, as though overcome with astonishment, and on joining him they were affected in the same way by the sight which met their eyes.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
13  I should have fallen into the hands of the murderous Ghazis had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
14  His hands were invariably blotted with ink and stained with chemicals, yet he was possessed of extraordinary delicacy of touch, as I frequently had occasion to observe when I watched him manipulating his fragile philosophical instruments.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
15  A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
16  It was not until Lestrade succeeded in getting his hand inside his neckcloth and half-strangling him that we made him realize that his struggles were of no avail; and even then we felt no security until we had pinioned his feet as well as his hands.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
17  Sherlock Holmes chuckled to himself, and appeared to be about to make some remark, when Lestrade, who had been in the front room while we were holding this conversation in the hall, reappeared upon the scene, rubbing his hands in a pompous and self-satisfied manner.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
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