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Sherlock Holmes
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  • Why is he acting all Sherlock Holmes on me?  (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes and Jem Finch would agree.  (source)
    Sherlock Holmes = fictitious detective
  • My teacher took out a book, The Collected Cases of Sherlock Holmes.†  (source)
    Sherlock Holmes = famous detective in make believe stories
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  • In high school I read some Sherlock Holmes and laughed to see that this was the same battle where Dr. Watson was wounded before becoming partner to the great detective.†  (source)
    Sherlock Holmes = famous detective in make believe stories
  • It looked like Sherlock Holmes's pipe, curved and drooping from her lips.†  (source)
  • It was all a little like the dog in the Sherlock Holmes story, the one that didn't bark.†  (source)
  • In the original Sherlock Holmes stories Sherlock Holmes never says "Elementary, my dear Watson."†  (source)
  • I've seen Sherlock Holmes a hundred times.†  (source)
  • I detected no Sherlock Holmes among them, nor even a Dr. Watson.†  (source)
  • Hilly's wearing a red wool A-line dress with a cape coat over it, Sherlock Holmes-style, even though it's hot as fire in here.†  (source)
  • "You want to play Sherlock Holmes?" asked Horace.†  (source)
  • And Sherlock Holmes would think so, too.†  (source)
  • There was even a rumour that some classic books—like the Sherlock Holmes ones—weren't in our library because the main characters smoked too much, and when you came across a page torn out of an illustrated book or magazine, this was because there'd been a picture on it of someone smoking.†  (source)
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