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It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

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One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal…
Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer…
I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey…
Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly…
Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything…
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were…
We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer…
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.…
His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I…
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire…
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my…

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A yawn is a silent shout. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world. — William Shakespeare
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by… — Charles Bowers
The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody… — David Foster Wallace
Never start a conversation with a yawn — Lee Clow
If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional armed forces,… — Margaret Thatcher
Surely nowhere in the world do oppression and persecution based solely on the color of the skin appear more hateful and hideous… — Mary Church Terrell
The trouble with having a wired jaw is that you can never tell when you're sleepy. You can't yawn. — Rocky Bridges
One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will… — A. S. J. Tessimond
Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or… — Wyndham Lewis
Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life. — Santoka Taneda
Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the… — Carl Sandburg

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