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1  It never went better in its life.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
2  I am a quiet woman and live a retired life.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
3  In the cottage lay the secret which was casting a shadow over my life.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
4  You were dwelling upon the sadness and horror and useless waste of life.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
5  I at once concluded that Straker was leading a double life, and keeping a second establishment.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
6  Like most people who lead a lonely life, she was shy at first, but ended by becoming extremely communicative.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
7  We know that this woman has led a most quiet and respectable life at Penge and here for the last twenty years.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
8  Since then I have of course had the Hurlstone estates to manage, and as I am member for my district as well, my life has been a busy one.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
9  You have at least the satisfaction of knowing that for thirty years of his life his conscience bitterly reproached him for this wicked deed.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
10  For three hours we strolled about together, watching the ever-changing kaleidoscope of life as it ebbs and flows through Fleet Street and the Strand.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
11  The governor has never held up his head from that evening, and now the life has been crushed out of him and his heart broken, all through this accursed Hudson.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
12  From that day to this it has been handed down from father to son, until at last it came within reach of a man who tore its secret out of it and lost his life in the venture.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
13  His age may not have been more than three or four and thirty, but his haggard expression and unhealthy hue told of a life which has sapped his strength and robbed him of his youth.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
14  And now, since last Monday, there has suddenly sprung up a barrier between us, and I find that there is something in her life and in her thought of which I know as little as if she were the woman who brushes by me in the street.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
15  Barclay, who died the other day, was sergeant in the same company as myself, and the belle of the regiment, ay, and the finest girl that ever had the breath of life between her lips, was Nancy Devoy, the daughter of the colour-sergeant.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
16  There is no indication as to the sender, and the matter is the more mysterious as Miss Cushing, who is a maiden lady of fifty, has led a most retired life, and has so few acquaintances or correspondents that it is a rare event for her to receive anything through the post.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
17  A splintered boat and a number of crates and fragments of spars rising and falling on the waves showed us where the vessel had foundered; but there was no sign of life, and we had turned away in despair when we heard a cry for help, and saw at some distance a piece of wreckage with a man lying stretched across it.
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ContextHighlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
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