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1  If you leave, you forfeit your whole position forever.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
2  From my position I could look over the case in the direction of the floor.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
3  It was a considerable sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have made a serious difference.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
4  Then it flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend very much upon the position in which I met it.
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ContextHighlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
5  She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain ball.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
6  You can understand that, living the life which I have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own age and position.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
7  Holmes was silent and buried in thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds himself in a perplexing position.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
8  I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in the same position.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
9  It was the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just now.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
10  He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
11  I can only claim the merit that I instantly reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not come either from the window or the door.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
12  You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique things are very often connected not with the larger but with the smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for doubt whether any positive crime has been committed.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
13  And then, realising the dreadful position in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would convulse the nation.
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ContextHighlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
14  You shave every morning, and in this season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated than the other.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
15  This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in the best of training.
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ContextHighlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
16  My limbs were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note of the bank director.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
17  The telegram which we eventually received came late one night just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came down to breakfast in the morning.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
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