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All right, Watson. Don’t look so scared,” he muttered in a very weak voice. “It’s not as bad as it seems.” “Thank God for that!” “I’m a bit of a single-stick expert, as you know. I took most of them on my guard. It was the second man that was too much for me.” “What can I do, Holmes? Of course, it was that damned fellow who set them on. I’ll go and thrash the hide off him if you give the word.” “Good old Watson!(...)

Arthur Conan Doyle

Men, Voice, Giving

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.1483, Ageless Reads

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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

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World, Spirit, Window

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “Mysteries and Adventures”, Lulu.com

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Now, Watson,” said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns. “You’ll come with me, won’t you?” “If I can be of use.” “Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Dog, Two, Yellow

Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes - The Ultimate Collection: 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories & 5 Extracanonical Works”, p.345, BoD - Books on Demand

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Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Hands, Violin, Evening

Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.433, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

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Running, Skulls, Museums

Arthur Conan DOYLE (2009). “Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes”, p.310, Omnibus

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Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Men, Hands, Special

Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.769, Race Point Pub

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There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Lying, Book, Sunshine

Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased Edition) (Vol. 2) (The Annotated Books)”, p.1443, W. W. Norton & Company

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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.

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Philosophy, Book, Ignorance

Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.1316, GENERAL PRESS

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It is all in the way of professional experience.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Way, Holmes, Professional Experience

"The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels".

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I suppose I shall have to compound a felony as usual.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Usual, Holmes, Compounds

"The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes".

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You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! - and that! - and that! - and that!

Arthur Conan Doyle

Heart, World, Ruins

Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.479, GENERAL PRESS

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""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, "fly with me! Be mine! Share with me the wild free life of a barrister! Say that you return the love which consumes my heart - oh, say it!" Here Bob put his hand over a hole in his waistcoat and struck a dramatic attitude.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Girl, Attitude, Humorous

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, John Michael Gibson, Richard Lancelyn Green (1982). “Uncollected stories”, Harvill Secker

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To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Dark, Son, Evil

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.17, ebookspub

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You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?

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Wind, Agents, May

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4165, Delphi Classics

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Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.

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Eye, Thinking, Principles

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4472, Delphi Classics

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Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

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Mind, Drs, May

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He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction that the man should remain ever the doctor and the woman the nurse, and yet he felt as if a blasphemy had been committed.

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Humorous, Biblical, Sarcasm

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.6722, Delphi Classics

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The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low drone of insects or with a sudden sharper note as bee or bluefly shot past with its quivering, long-drawn hum, like an insect tuning-fork.

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Humorous, Sarcasm, Past

Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Beyond the City”, p.30, Sheba Blake Publishing

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Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil

Arthur Conan Doyle

Focus, Devil, Nucleus

Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “All the best stories about Sherlock Holmes”, p.352, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy - those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Eye, Dark, Compassion

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “The Valley of Fear”, p.76, ebookspub

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I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Art, Brother, Book

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, David Stuart Davies (1998). “The Best of Sherlock Holmes”, p.200, Wordsworth Editions

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I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sleep, Night, Men

Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.885, Wordsworth Editions

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I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Humorous, Sarcasm, Age

Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.612, Race Point Pub

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To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Children, Animal, Boys

Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.531, Wordsworth Editions

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"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the back of a -- visiting card. If there's any complaint you want to make a special study of, just you come to me, sir, and see what I can do for you. It's not every one that can say that he has had cholera three times, and cured himself by living on red pepper and brandy."

Arthur Conan Doyle

Humorous, Sarcasm, Museums

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4140, Delphi Classics

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Born: May 22, 1859
Died: July 7, 1930
Occupation: Physician
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