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1  I had my enemies within my power.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN ...
2  My respect for his powers of analysis increased wondrously.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3  I see that I have alluded above to his powers upon the violin.
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ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
4  So powerful and so fierce was he, that the four of us were shaken off again and again.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
5  The mere knowing of his name is a small thing, however, compared with the power of laying our hands upon him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
6  The walls of his chest seemed to thrill and quiver as a frail building would do inside when some powerful engine was at work.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN ...
7  A rash word or a hasty act was followed by annihilation, and yet none knew what the nature might be of this terrible power which was suspended over them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
8  He was a tall, savage-looking young fellow, mounted on a powerful roan horse, and clad in the rough dress of a hunter, with a long rifle slung over his shoulders.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
9  At first this vague and terrible power was exercised only upon the recalcitrants who, having embraced the Mormon faith, wished afterwards to pervert or to abandon it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
10  With indomitable patience and perseverance, Jefferson Hope possessed also a power of sustained vindictiveness, which he may have learned from the Indians amongst whom he had lived.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
11  I remember that I thought to myself, as I eyed him, that I had seldom seen a more powerfully built man; and his dark sunburned face bore an expression of determination and energy which was as formidable as his personal strength.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN ...
12  One day the professor was lecturing on poisions, and he showed his students some alkaloid, as he called it, which he had extracted from some South American arrow poison, and which was so powerful that the least grain meant instant death.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN ...