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1  Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but without success.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
2  I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but without success.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
3  Then suddenly he plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my success.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
4  So accustomed was I to his invariable success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to enter into my head.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
5  If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here who may be more successful.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
6  Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the shutter open, but without success.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
7  He was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire upon a handsome competence.
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ContextHighlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
8  This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
9  In the last century, however, four successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the days of the Regency.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
10  He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly beneath us.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
11  Sherlock Holmes had been silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
12  As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
13  From time to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
14  About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so dearly.
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ContextHighlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB