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1  I have been at work upon it all day.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
2  To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
3  I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, too.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
4  No servant would stay with us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
5  The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross was there to see that I got fairly to work.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
6  All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in the evening before I returned to Baker Street.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
7  Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their work the longer time they will have for their escape.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
8  As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it out.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
9  On the other hand, a man should be at his very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not wish to do it when fagged by a long journey.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
10  It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where the poison fangs had done their work.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
11  It is not so impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have endeavoured in my case to do.
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ContextHighlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
12  A formidable array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the chemical work which was so dear to him.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
13  By profession I am a hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich.
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ContextHighlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
14  He had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, at work upon him.
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ContextHighlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
15  I took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would enable us to buy the neighbouring fields.
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ContextHighlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
16  There are several people in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in his interest.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
17  Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most inextricable mysteries.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
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