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1  I determined to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the police.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
2  It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more afraid of her knowing my past than of the police.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
3  He is a professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
4  We have in our police reports realism pushed to its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, neither fascinating nor artistic.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
5  Let us thrust this creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to some place of shelter and let the county police know what has happened.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
6  He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
7  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
8  He throws it out, and would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the window when the police appeared.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
9  On the other hand, if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the details should find their way into the papers.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
10  It is possible that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, and which a singular chance has placed in our hands.
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ContextHighlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
11  He has little time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
12  He would not go to the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away to you.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
13  By the time that their sailing-ship reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder.
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ContextHighlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
14  On entering his room, I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
15  He was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
16  There are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange disappearance of the bride.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
17  On ascertaining that his daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very singular business.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
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