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1  Holmes's response was a curious one.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
2  "It is certainly rather a curious production," said Holmes.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
3  "Some curious person from the village, perhaps," I suggested.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
4  Holmes thought for a little, and then a curious smile played over his face.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
5  There were some really curious pieces of mediaeval domestic architecture within.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
6  As we drove up, we found the railings in front of the house lined by a curious crowd.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
7  "It seems to be a curious class of custom that is done by the Fighting Cock," said Holmes.
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ContextHighlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
8  However, we may congratulate ourselves upon a curious and, in some respects, a unique case.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
9  By the way, there is one curious little point about those papers which may serve us as the starting-point for an inquiry.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
10  Accustomed as I was to Holmes's curious faculties, this sudden intrusion into my most intimate thoughts was utterly inexplicable.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
11  Having shaken hands with each of us, he was about to sit down, when his eye rested upon the paper with the curious markings, which I had just examined and left upon the table.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
12  In the whirl of our incessant activity, it has often been difficult for me, as the reader has probably observed, to round off my narratives, and to give those final details which the curious might expect.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
13  You must admit that it is curious and suggestive that this incident should occur on the eve of this important match, and should involve the only man whose presence seems essential to the success of the side.
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ContextHighlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
14  The interview left Sherlock Holmes very thoughtful, and several times in the next few days I saw him take his slip of paper from his notebook and look long and earnestly at the curious figures inscribed upon it.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
15  For this reason I will now lay before the reader the facts connected with Miss Violet Smith, the solitary cyclist of Charlington, and the curious sequel of our investigation, which culminated in unexpected tragedy.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
16  It was the severity of Holmes's manner and the fact that he slipped a revolver into his pocket before leaving our rooms which impressed me with the feeling that tragedy might prove to lurk behind this curious train of events.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
17  Each of these would furnish a narrative, but on the whole I am of opinion that none of them unites so many singular points of interest as the episode of Yoxley Old Place, which includes not only the lamentable death of young Willoughby Smith, but also those subsequent developments which threw so curious a light upon the causes of the crime.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
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