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1  I shall work it out on my own hook.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  That is not Tobias Gregson's way of going to work.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
3  I then set to work calling upon all the hotels and lodging-houses in the vicinity of Euston.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
4  His iron constitution enabled him to work morning and evening at improving and tilling his lands.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
5  There was only one student in the room, who was bending over a distant table absorbed in his work.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
6  Surely no man would work so hard or attain such precise information unless he had some definite end in view.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
7  He took no particular notice of him, beyond thinking in his own mind that it was early for him to be at work.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
8  He came down so quietly and openly that the boy imagined him to be some carpenter or joiner at work in the hotel.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
9  "There's more work to be got out of one of those little beggars than out of a dozen of the force," Holmes remarked.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
10  Those rules of deduction laid down in that article which aroused your scorn, are invaluable to me in practical work.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
11  Funds were wanting, however, and for some time he had to return to work, saving every dollar for his approaching journey.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
12  I've done my work now, and I don't care how soon I go, but I should like to leave some account of the business behind me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN ...
13  The walls of his chest seemed to thrill and quiver as a frail building would do inside when some powerful engine was at work.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN ...
14  I was on the point of asking him what that work might be, but something in his manner showed me that the question would be an unwelcome one.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
15  He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
16  John, cooped up in the valley, and absorbed in his work, had had little chance of learning the news of the outside world during the last twelve years.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
17  He and they had been among the Nevada Mountains prospecting for silver, and were returning to Salt Lake City in the hope of raising capital enough to work some lodes which they had discovered.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
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