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1 Holmes was certainly not a difficult man to live with.
2 Why, man, it is the most practical medico-legal discovery for years.
3 A man is suspected of a crime months perhaps after it has been committed.
4 He was a man with some amount of self-importance and a certain air of command.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Get Context In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
Get Context In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
5 If I am to lodge with anyone, I should prefer a man of studious and quiet habits.
6 His chin, too, had the prominence and squareness which mark the man of determination.
7 No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
8 The train of reasoning ran, 'Here is a gentleman of a medical type, but with the air of a military man.'
9 The sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man.
10 Surely no man would work so hard or attain such precise information unless he had some definite end in view.
11 The writer claimed by a momentary expression, a twitch of a muscle or a glance of an eye, to fathom a man's inmost thoughts.
12 During the first week or so we had no callers, and I had begun to think that my companion was as friendless a man as I was myself.
13 Our man on the beat saw a light there about two in the morning, and as the house was an empty one, suspected that something was amiss.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Get Context In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
Get Context In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
14 No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.
15 Again I had an opportunity of asking him a point blank question, and again my delicacy prevented me from forcing another man to confide in me.
16 Let him, on meeting a fellow-mortal, learn at a glance to distinguish the history of the man, and the trade or profession to which he belongs.
17 You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
18 The thought had hardly passed through my mind when the man whom we were watching caught sight of the number on our door, and ran rapidly across the roadway.
19 Its somewhat ambitious title was "The Book of Life," and it attempted to show how much an observant man might learn by an accurate and systematic examination of all that came in his way.
20 The reader may set me down as a hopeless busybody, when I confess how much this man stimulated my curiosity, and how often I endeavoured to break through the reticence which he showed on all that concerned himself.
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