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1  My practice is never very absorbing.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
2  He never did wish us to go anywhere.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
3  He said that he had never heard of any such body.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
4  He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
5  We have had some skirmishes, but we had never set eyes upon each other before.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
6  I am sure you could never guess how I employed my morning, or what I ended by doing.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
7  He is dark, handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and often twice.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
8  There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said yesterday, some of the details are of interest.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
9  It has become known that we have never had occasion to unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
10  And he said that I had nothing fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much as taken out of the drawer.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
11  That was last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything since then to throw any light upon what became of him.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
12  His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to find the man himself.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
13  I can never bring you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
14  Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk the loss of it.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
15  Then, when they talked of marrying within the week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother said she would make it all right with him.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
16  The swing of his nature took him from extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his black-letter editions.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
17  I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
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