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1  Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
2  I lounged up the side aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
3  He ran round, like a dog who is picking up a scent, and then turned upon my companion.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
4  Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man who is in need of air.
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5  I should like an accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can spare.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
6  She would like advice, but is not sure that the matter is not too delicate for communication.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
7  The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his breast, like one who is utterly crushed.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
8  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
9  Oh, how simple it would all have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo and wallowed all over it.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
10  His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, sinewy neck.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
11  Snapping away with a camera when he ought to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
12  Of course, I did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family misfortune like this noised abroad.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
13  In another instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face and a shock of very red hair.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
14  He looked about him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is weighed down with some great anxiety.
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ContextHighlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
15  When these hot fits were over, however, he would rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror which lies at the roots of his soul.
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ContextHighlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
16  As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
17  All day the wind had screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like untamed beasts in a cage.
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ContextHighlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
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