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1  I wish I knew how you reach your results.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
2  Pray give me the results of your newspaper selections.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
3  I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss my results.
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ContextHighlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
4  We have not yet grasped the results which the reason alone can attain to.
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ContextHighlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
5  The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an abominable crime.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
6  I could not imagine a man of your habits looking at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a result.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
7  When you drove home after the concert I called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank directors, with the result that you have seen.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
8  We have in our police reports realism pushed to its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, neither fascinating nor artistic.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
9  The walls were carefully sounded, and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was also thoroughly examined, with the same result.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
10  Nothing could be more natural than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. Lestrade of Scotland Yard.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
11  But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
12  There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are points in connection with it which never have been, and probably never will be, entirely cleared up.
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ContextHighlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
13  On ascertaining that his daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very singular business.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
14  Of these the latter may have afforded a finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results.
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ContextHighlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB