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1  That is certainly very singular.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
2  Our guide's answer was a singular one.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
3  Our route was certainly a singular one.
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ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
4  There were some most singular points about the man.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
5  "They are singular, not to say grotesque," said Holmes.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
6  The second case, however, was more serious, and also more singular.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
7  That is singular, because you sat down in that chair over yonder near the corner.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
8  That coal-black beard was in singular contrast to eyes were as bright as if he had a fever.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
9  Because we have in this case one singular incident coming close to the heels of another singular incident.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
10  On the farther side of it, under the shadow of a mighty oak, there stood a singular group of three people.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
11  Here also I find an account of the Addleton tragedy, and the singular contents of the ancient British barrow.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
12  By a singular and happy chance, we are able to some extent to check what passed along this road during the night in question.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
13  It proved, however, that our vigil was not to be so long as Holmes had led us to fear, and it ended in a very sudden and singular fashion.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
14  I have here in front of me these singular productions, at which one might smile, had they not proved themselves to be the forerunners of so terrible a tragedy.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
15  Holmes's quiet day in the country had a singular termination, for he arrived at Baker Street late in the evening, with a cut lip and a discoloured lump upon his forehead, besides a general air of dissipation which would have made his own person the fitting object of a Scotland Yard investigation.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
16  Yet there was much around to interest us, for we were passing through as singular a countryside as any in England, where a few scattered cottages represented the population of to-day, while on every hand enormous square-towered churches bristled up from the flat green landscape and told of the glory and prosperity of old East Anglia.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
17  Each of these would furnish a narrative, but on the whole I am of opinion that none of them unites so many singular points of interest as the episode of Yoxley Old Place, which includes not only the lamentable death of young Willoughby Smith, but also those subsequent developments which threw so curious a light upon the causes of the crime.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
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