All 50 Uses of
Sherlock Holmes
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES BY SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE ADVENTURE I. A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA I. To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman.†
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- To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman.†
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- The house was just such as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected.†
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- He was searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes."†
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- "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face.†
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- Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she.†
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- Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and surprise.†
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- The photograph was of Irene Adler herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for."†
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- It was dated at midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,—You really did it very well.†
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- Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock Holmes.†
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- I leave a photograph which he might care to possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "Very truly yours, "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER."†
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- And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were beaten by a woman's wit.†
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- THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair.†
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- Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances.†
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- "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City.†
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- "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes.†
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- Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every other consideration that we both burst out into a roar of laughter.†
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- Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between puckered lids.†
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- I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings with Sherlock Holmes.†
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- "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and that the play will be more exciting.†
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- Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in the afternoon.†
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- Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar.†
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- A CASE OF IDENTITY "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.†
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- Sherlock Holmes welcomed her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was peculiar to him.†
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- "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to the ceiling.†
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- I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he had listened with the greatest concentration of attention.†
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- Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling.†
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- Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled.†
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- I found Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin form curled up in the recesses of his armchair.†
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- It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran in this way: "Have you a couple of days to spare?†
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- I think that the change would do you good, and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases."†
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- Sherlock Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap.†
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- "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come.†
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- "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes.†
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- I did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young McCarthy's innocence.†
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- It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned.†
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- Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent as this.†
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- Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened it out on the table.†
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- I never hear of such a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'†
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- ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which present strange and interesting features that it is no easy matter to know which to choose and which to leave.†
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- In the latter, as may be remembered, Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time—a deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the case.†
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- Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of the sea waves.†
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- Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door.†
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- "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes.†
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- Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire.†
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- Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together.†
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- "Have you never—" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and sinking his voice—"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?"†
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- Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came down.†
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- Sherlock Holmes had not come back yet.†
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- He had turned his back so that none could see him but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes.†
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Definition:
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(Sherlock Holmes) fictitious detective introduced in stories by Arthur Conan Doyle (1887) and appearing in numerous film adaptations