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1  Young McCarthy must be got off, however.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
2  They drove away in different directions, and I went off to make my own arrangements.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
3  If it had been written straight off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
4  Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
5  He made a sweeping bow to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the detective.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
6  The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
7  He started me off upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from time to time to see that all was right with me.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
8  He was urging his son to marry my daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she were a slut from off the streets.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
9  He was very willing to have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for the address that was given us in the advertisement.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
10  So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found the summer sun shining into the apartment.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
11  But now the spell had been upon him eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the effects.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
12  He took off his coat and waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from the sofa and armchairs.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
13  A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
14  Yet I could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives.
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ContextHighlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
15  At last, when nothing else would do, he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
16  If that were true the murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
17  The most lay silent, but some muttered to themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
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