All 3 Uses of
metropolis
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- A few country carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as some city in a dream.†
Chpt 6
- One day my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them.†
Chpt 6 *
- Now, when young ladies wander about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is something very pressing which they have to communicate.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(metropolis) city -- especially a large city that is considered important