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1  For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
2  I expect that within an hour matters will come to a head.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
3  As I expected, his reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but characteristic defects.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
4  There is a strong presumption that the person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was someone who had been in Australia.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
5  After all, if these people had strange fads and expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were at least ready to pay for their eccentricity.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
6  To me, with my nerves worked up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the vault.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
7  I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he had listened with the greatest concentration of attention.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
8  Amid the action and reaction of so dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be presented which may be striking and bizarre without being criminal.
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ContextHighlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
9  Now, by the merest chance, his wife received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
10  Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the mantelpiece.
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ContextHighlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB