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1  Of course, that is only just for the time.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
2  It is past ten, however, and quite time that we started.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
3  I have every reason to believe that we shall be in time to stop it.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
4  I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I prepare for the new role I have to play.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
5  To the best of his belief, the father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was following him.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
6  Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their work the longer time they will have for their escape.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
7  By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at all.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
8  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.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
9  My wants were few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
10  There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had hurried by.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
11  My father was absent from home at the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
12  A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at the bedside of the sufferer.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
13  From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive for securing the situation.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
14  I was inclined to think at one time that he knew who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced now that he is as puzzled as everyone else.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
15  Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some time.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
16  From time to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland.
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ContextHighlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
17  All the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was possible to conceive.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
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