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- And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on…
- "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."
- I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt…
- Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice. Its right to…
- ""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!…
- The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance…
- Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of…
- Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer,…
- It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway…
- [Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
- Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days. God's direct agency was to be seen in the thunder and the rainbow, the whirlwind…
- Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am…
- A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth,…
- It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so,…
- Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some…
- Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest…
- Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
- You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
- Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
- Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know…
- You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for…
- The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come…
- Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse,…
- Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
- He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog…
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