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1 The captain, the two mates, two warders, Lieutenant Martin, his eighteen soldiers, and the doctor were all that we had against us.
The Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
2 Hayter was a fine old soldier who had seen much of the world, and he soon found, as I had expected, that Holmes and he had much in common.
The Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
3 It was one thing to knock the soldiers over with their muskets in their hands, and it was another to stand by while men were being killed in cold blood.
The Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
4 I saved enough to bring me across, and then I came here where the soldiers are, for I know their ways and how to amuse them and so earn enough to keep me.
The Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
5 He was a dashing, jovial old soldier in his usual mood, but there were occasions on which he seemed to show himself capable of considerable violence and vindictiveness.
The Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
6 There were two more soldiers at the door of the state-room, and their muskets seemed not to be loaded, for they never fired upon us, and they were shot while trying to fix their bayonets.
The Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
7 She was a five-hundred-ton boat, and besides her thirty-eight gaol-birds, she carried twenty-six of a crew, eighteen soldiers, a captain, three mates, a doctor, a chaplain, and four warders.
The Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
8 His mistress had ceased to scream and was stretched insensible upon a couch, while with his feet tilted over the side of an armchair, and his head upon the ground near the corner of the fender, was lying the unfortunate soldier stone dead in a pool of his own blood.
The Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man