1 But his papers were my great crux.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual 2 You have done me a great service by recovering my horse.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze 3 No great damage done, but the fellows are still at large.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires 4 They would run a great risk and gain nothing by taking him.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze 5 He had a great interest in the disappearance of the favourite.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze 6 Were he but gifted with imagination he might rise to great heights in his profession.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze 7 There are not such a very great number of civilians, and a deformed man was sure to have attracted attention.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man 8 I had come to believe that he was an orphan with no relatives living, but one day, to my very great surprise, he began to talk to me about his brother.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter 9 But the affair is a petty one, one of our little country crimes, which must seem too small for your attention, Mr. Holmes, after this great international affair.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires 10 I may add that she was a woman of great beauty, and that even now, when she has been married for upwards of thirty years, she is still of a striking and queenly appearance.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man 11 He was a young schoolmaster out of place when he was first taken up by my father, but he was a man of great energy and character, and he soon became quite invaluable in the household.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual 12 There have been cases before now where trainers have made sure of great sums of money by laying against their own horses, through agents, and then preventing them from winning by fraud.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze 13 He was a man of good family and of great ability, but of incurably vicious habits, who had by an ingenious system of fraud obtained huge sums of money from the leading London merchants.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott" 14 I must congratulate you on coming into the possession, though in rather a tragic manner of a relic which is of great intrinsic value, but of even greater importance as an historical curiosity.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual 15 One day, however, when the autumn was far advanced and the vacation drawing to a close, I received a telegram from my friend imploring me to return to Donnithorpe, and saying that he was in great need of my advice and assistance.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott" 16 So conscious was the manager of the responsibility which devolved upon him in consequence of the great interests at stake that safes of the very latest construction have been employed, and an armed watchman has been left day and night in the building.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk 17 I had thought of a great office with shining tables and rows of clerks, such as I was used to, and I daresay I stared rather straight at the two deal chairs and one little table, which, with a ledger and a waste paper basket, made up the whole furniture.
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