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1 All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in the evening before I returned to Baker Street.
The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
2 He had for years been known as a professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very quiet and innocent one.
The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
3 He is a professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas.
The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
4 A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at the bedside of the sufferer.
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5 I have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time.
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6 His costume was a peculiar mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand.
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7 I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were submitted to him.
The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
8 The last squire dragged out his existence there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he established a large practice.
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