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1  But as a practical man of affairs it is acknowledged that you stand alone.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
2  We believe there has been a change from a town hospital to a country practice.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
3  A most practical, pressing matter, which must be decided within twenty-four hours.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
4  I married, and so left the hospital, and with it all hopes of a consulting practice.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
5  But Dr. Mortimer has his practice to attend to, and his house is miles away from yours.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
6  He was a strong-minded man, sir, shrewd, practical, and as unimaginative as I am myself.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
7  I could well remember the scorn which the theories of the reasoner used then to excite in the practical man.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets
8  All this, however, is foreign to the mission on which you sent me and will probably be very uninteresting to your severely practical mind.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
9  For both these reasons I thought that I was justified in telling rather less than I knew, since no practical good could result from it, but with you there is no reason why I should not be perfectly frank.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
10  Now, you will observe that he could not have been on the staff of the hospital, since only a man well-established in a London practice could hold such a position, and such a one would not drift into the country.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
11  If matters came to a crisis I should endeavour to be present in person; but you can understand that, with my extensive consulting practice and with the constant appeals which reach me from many quarters, it is impossible for me to be absent from London for an indefinite time.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads