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1  You fail, however, to reason from what you see.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
2  I have every reason to believe that we shall be in time to stop it.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
3  We have not yet grasped the results which the reason alone can attain to.
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ContextHighlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
4  It is precisely for that reason that we are going to Stoke Moran this day.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
5  There is no reason, therefore, to think that money troubles have been weighing upon his mind.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
6  The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
7  In the first place, we may start with a strong presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for leaving America.
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ContextHighlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
8  Mr. Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
9  And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because I was concerned in it.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
10  For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the extreme limits of his reason.
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ContextHighlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
11  Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
12  He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to them.
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ContextHighlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
13  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
14  But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
15  She wrote me dreadful letters when she heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I feared lest there might be a scandal in the church.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
16  As I have reason to believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of this remarkable episode.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
17  To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.
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ContextHighlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
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