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1  Absolutely no clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
2  Having done this, you must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
3  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
4  But we have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and once by paint.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
5  It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have more than once taken advantage of it.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
6  Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram from the major, imploring me to come at once.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
7  Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and once he made quite a little detour into the meadow.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
8  Twice he was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are deeply marked and the heels hardly visible.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
9  When a woman thinks that her house is on fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she values most.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
10  By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at all.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
11  Holmes traced his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon his face with a little cry of satisfaction.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
12  When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan of campaign.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
13  I hesitated whether to attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had come in, and as he was watching me narrowly, it seemed safer to wait.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
14  It is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly correct than the official force.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
15  He made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided into a doddering, loose-lipped senility.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
16  For many years he had adopted a system of docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not at once furnish information.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
17  I felt, however, that when Whitney was once confined in the cab my mission was practically accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular adventures which were the normal condition of his existence.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
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