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1  The whole train of thought did not occupy a second.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  It was as well that his prairie training had given Jefferson Hope the ears of a lynx.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
3  Most people, if you describe a train of events to them, will tell you what the result would be.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
4  Deceit, according to him, was an impossibility in the case of one trained to observation and analysis.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
5  The train of reasoning ran, 'Here is a gentleman of a medical type, but with the air of a military man.'
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
6  No doubt it appeared to you to be a mere trampled line of slush, but to my trained eyes every mark upon its surface had a meaning.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
7  I heard them ask for the Liverpool train, and the guard answer that one had just gone and there would not be another for some hours.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN ...
8  He forced his way into the room, where I was sitting with my daughter, and made some incoherent remark about having missed his train.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
9  From long habit the train of thoughts ran so swiftly through my mind, that I arrived at the conclusion without being conscious of intermediate steps.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
10  Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships which I had undergone, I was removed, with a great train of wounded sufferers, to the base hospital at Peshawar.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
11  There, too, were droves of sheep and bullocks coming in from the outlying pasture lands, and trains of tired immigrants, men and horses equally weary of their interminable journey.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
12  I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
13  On that the Secretary gave it up as a bad job, and simply bargained with him that if he missed the last train he should rejoin him at Halliday's Private Hotel; to which Drebber answered that he would be back on the platform before eleven, and made his way out of the station.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN ...