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1  No doubt many feet have been here since Monday night.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
2  And it was to be used for a delicate operation that night.
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ContextHighlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
3  They had heard nothing during the night, for they are both sound sleepers.
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ContextHighlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
4  Such was the general situation last Monday night when the catastrophe occurred.
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ContextHighlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
5  One of these lads sat up each night in the stable, while the others slept in the loft.
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ContextHighlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
6  That night I made up the packet for Sarah Cushing, and next day I sent it from Belfast.
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ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
7  It has been a standing jest in the family that nothing could ever wake me during the night.
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ContextHighlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
8  All the rest of the night I tossed and tumbled, framing theory after theory, each more unlikely than the last.
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ContextHighlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
9  I killed them quick, but they are killing me slow; and if I have another night of it I shall be either mad or dead before morning.
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ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
10  Not another word did he say of the case until late that night, when he was turning away, with his lighted candle, for his bedroom.
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ContextHighlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
11  But it falls away towards Mapleton, and you can see from here that there is a long hollow over yonder, which must have been very wet on Monday night.
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ContextHighlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
12  It was a very dark night, and a thin rain began to fall as we turned from the high road into a narrow lane, deeply rutted, with hedges on either side.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
13  It had been ascertained at the shipping offices that Browner had left aboard of the May Day, and I calculate that she is due in the Thames to-morrow night.
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ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
14  And yet somehow on that particular night, whether it may have been the slight excitement produced by my little adventure or not I know not, but I slept much more lightly than usual.
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ContextHighlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
15  Therefore Simpson becomes eliminated from the case, and our attention centres upon Straker and his wife, the only two people who could have chosen curried mutton for supper that night.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
16  Finally, an analysis has shown that the remains of his supper left by the stable-lad contain an appreciable quantity of powdered opium, while the people at the house partook of the same dish on the same night without any ill effect.
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ContextHighlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
17  His wet clothing showed that he had been out in the storm of the night before, and his stick, which was a Penang-lawyer weighted with lead, was just such a weapon as might, by repeated blows, have inflicted the terrible injuries to which the trainer had succumbed.
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ContextHighlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
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