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1  I rushed upstairs to make sure that she was not in the house.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
2  I shall be either at the house or in the police-station all day.
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ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
3  It was a small shed in the narrow garden which ran behind the house.
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ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
4  As I entered the house the maid ran into the hall with a startled face.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
5  Anyway, she took a house just two streets off and let lodgings to sailors.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
6  I therefore went into the house with the intention of clearing up this point.
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ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
7  Our driver pulled up at a house which was not unlike the one which we had just quitted.
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ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
8  It is something new for me to see my name in the papers and to find the police in my house.
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ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
9  The girl fled away to the house, but as she ran she looked back and saw that the stranger was leaning through the window.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
10  For a month he was in and out of my house, and never once did it cross my mind that harm might come of his soft, tricky ways.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
11  We were just as happy as the day was long when we set up house together, and in all Liverpool there was no better woman than my Mary.
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ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
12  Baker Street was like an oven, and the glare of the sunlight upon the yellow brickwork of the house across the road was painful to the eye.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
13  She begged him to remain at home, as she could hear the rain pattering against the window, but in spite of her entreaties he pulled on his large mackintosh and left the house.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
14  Some years ago, however, when she resided at Penge, she let apartments in her house to three young medical students, whom she was obliged to get rid of on account of their noisy and irregular habits.
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ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
15  She seemed for an instant to wish to shrink back inside the house again; and then, seeing how useless all concealment must be, she came forward, with a very white face and frightened eyes which belied the smile upon her lips.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
16  Finally, an analysis has shown that the remains of his supper left by the stable-lad contain an appreciable quantity of powdered opium, while the people at the house partook of the same dish on the same night without any ill effect.
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ContextHighlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
17  They still had hopes that the trainer had for some reason taken out the horse for early exercise, but on ascending the knoll near the house, from which all the neighbouring moors were visible, they not only could see no signs of the missing favourite, but they perceived something which warned them that they were in the presence of a tragedy.
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ContextHighlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
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