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1  I knew that Moriarty was not the only man who had sworn my death.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
2  I left it with my cigarette-box and my stick, and I walked along the pathway, Moriarty still at my heels.
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3  It was at this time that he was sought out by Professor Moriarty, to whom for a time he was chief of the staff.
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ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
4  So cleverly was the colonel concealed that, even when the Moriarty gang was broken up, we could not incriminate him.
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ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
5  I am not a fanciful person, but I give you my word that I seemed to hear Moriarty's voice screaming at me out of the abyss.
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ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
6  I have not seen a man who, if he turns his talents that way, was more calculated to fill the gap left by the illustrious Moriarty.
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ContextHighlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
7  When we were in Switzerland he followed us with Moriarty, and it was undoubtedly he who gave me that evil five minutes on the Reichenbach ledge.
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ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
8  So rapidly does the brain act that I believe I had thought this all out before Professor Moriarty had reached the bottom of the Reichenbach Fall.
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ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
9  Moriarty supplied him liberally with money, and used him only in one or two very high-class jobs, which no ordinary criminal could have undertaken.
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ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
10  The course of events in London did not run so well as I had hoped, for the trial of the Moriarty gang left two of its most dangerous members, my own most vindictive enemies, at liberty.
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ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
11  An admirable and unique weapon," said he, "noiseless and of tremendous power: I knew Von Herder, the blind German mechanic, who constructed it to the order of the late Professor Moriarty.
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ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
12  I had little doubt that I had come to the end of my career when I perceived the somewhat sinister figure of the late Professor Moriarty standing upon the narrow pathway which led to safety.
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ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
13  But I cared a great deal for the much more formidable person who was behind him, the bosom friend of Moriarty, the man who dropped the rocks over the cliff, the most cunning and dangerous criminal in London.
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ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE