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1 "This is astonishing," said I, as I handed back the volume.
The Return of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
2 With five volumes you could just fill that gap on that second shelf.
The Return of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
3 Leaning on the table, he rapidly turned over the leaves of this volume until he came to the entry which he sought.
The Return of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
4 At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my declining years to the composition of a textbook, which shall focus the whole art of detection into one volume.
The Return of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
5 It was a very large chamber, lined with innumerable volumes, which had overflowed from the shelves and lay in piles in the corners, or were stacked all round at the base of the cases.
The Return of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
6 To my astonishment it was none other than my strange old book collector, his sharp, wizened face peering out from a frame of white hair, and his precious volumes, a dozen of them at least, wedged under his right arm.
The Return of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
7 I remember that as I picked them up, I observed the title of one of them, THE ORIGIN OF TREE WORSHIP, and it struck me that the fellow must be some poor bibliophile, who, either as a trade or as a hobby, was a collector of obscure volumes.
The Return of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE