1 Deceit, according to him, was an impossibility in the case of one trained to observation and analysis.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 2 Puerile as such an exercise may seem, it sharpens the faculties of observation, and teaches one where to look and what to look for.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 3 Yes, I have a turn both for observation and for deduction.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 4 I am simply applying to ordinary life a few of those precepts of observation and deduction which I advocated in that article.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL 5 Tom blew his smoke aside, after he had been smoking a little while, and took an observation of his friend.
6 The return he makes her, within my observation, is a very poor one.
7 There was such a person in the room that night, and she shrunk from observation, thought Louisa.
8 Formed in the best proportions of her sex, Rowena was tall in stature, yet not so much so as to attract observation on account of superior height.
9 Hubert shook his head as he received with reluctance the bounty of the stranger, and Locksley, anxious to escape further observation, mixed with the crowd, and was seen no more.
10 And while their manners were thus the subject of sarcastic observation, the untaught Saxons unwittingly transgressed several of the arbitrary rules established for the regulation of society.
11 On such occasions he would start up, quaff a cup of wine as if to raise his spirits, and then mingle in the conversation by some observation made abruptly or at random.
12 Cedric went on with his story without noticing this interjectional observation of his friend.
13 The observation was extraordinary and peculiar.
14 My poor aunt had certainly little cause to love the state; but, however, speaking from my own observation, it is a manoeuvring business.
15 She had none of Fanny's delicacy of taste, of mind, of feeling; she saw Nature, inanimate Nature, with little observation; her attention was all for men and women, her talents for the light and lively.