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1  Holmes walked slowly, taking keen note of the architecture of the house.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
2  I was pained at the mistake, for I knew how keenly Holmes would feel any slip of the kind.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
3  There were ten thousand rebels round us, and they were as keen as a set of terriers round a rat-cage.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
4  It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
5  Sherlock Holmes had listened to this long narrative with an intentness which showed me that his interest was keenly aroused.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
6  Once or twice we drifted into talk, and I can remember that more than once he expressed a keen interest in my methods of observation and inference.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
7  In person he was a thick-set, burly man with a shock of grizzled hair, a brown, weather-beaten face, and blue eyes which were keen to the verge of fierceness.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
8  Holmes had shaken off his temporary ill-humour, and his characteristic talk, with its keen observance of detail and subtle power of inference held me amused and enthralled.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
9  Something of his birthplace seemed to cling to the man, and I never looked at his pale, keen face or the poise of his head without associating him with grey archways and mullioned windows and all the venerable wreckage of a feudal keep.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
10  It was boisterous October weather, and we had both remained indoors all day, I because I feared with my shaken health to face the keen autumn wind, while he was deep in some of those abstruse chemical investigations which absorbed him utterly as long as he was engaged upon them.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient