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  • Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes.'†   (source)
  • By now Geyer was a national fascination, America's Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • It was all a little like the dog in the Sherlock Holmes story , the one that didn't bark.†   (source)
  • I've always been considered pretty smart (a genius, if you ask me) but I consistently play Watson to SarahByrnes's Sherlock Holmes, and from where I stood at the time—petrified by fear—her thinking seemed sound.†   (source)
  • And Sherlock Holmes would think so, too.†   (source)
  • A big easy chair by the window looked like the kind of place Sherlock Holmes would sit smoking a pipe.†   (source)
  • She continued to read to him almost every evening, just as she had been doing from the time he had come to live with her, stories of adventure and suspense like Sherlock Holmes and Tom Sawyer, as well as poetry—Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes and many others.†   (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)
  • "You want to play Sherlock Holmes?" asked Horace.†   (source)
  • There were Snow White and some of the seven dwarfs, Mary Poppins and Sherlock Holmes, Peter Pan and Pippi Longstocking, Little Red Ridinghood and Cinderella.†   (source)
  • Feeling just about as smart as Sherlock Holmes, I headed for the store.†   (source)
  • When he rode the bicycle he would wear acrobat's tights, gaudy socks, and a Sherlock Holmes cap, but when he was on foot he would dress in a spotless natural linen suit, white shoes, a silk bow tie, a straw boater, and he would carry a willow stick in his hand.†   (source)
  • When I found out her story I figured I'd march myself right up to Hollywood and get a Sherlock Holmes job.†   (source)
  • In those days Mr Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.†   (source)
  • The address of the club Charles leads John and Jack to—221B Baker Street—is well known to any Sherlock Holmes reader as the detective's home.†   (source)
  • No, it couldn't, Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • A quip from Mr. Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • Either way, my father had been affected by his given and almost-given names; he was forever quoting Tennyson or telling me in great detail a Sherlock Holmes plot.†   (source)
  • Thereafter he read all Sherlock Holmes stories, scanning film in Luna City Carnegie Library.†   (source)
  • I detected no Sherlock Holmes among them, nor even a Dr. Watson.†   (source)
  • And Sherlock Holmes and Watson and Lestrade from Scotland Yard catch him.†   (source)
  • All right, in the end he had played Sherlock Holmes, yes: it had been a sort of game.†   (source)
  • He remembered the insult: Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • So Sherlock Holmes sends Doctor Watson to Devon with Sir Henry Baskerville and James Mortimer.†   (source)
  • Horace Whaley would not ridicule him now about playing Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • But it is Sherlock Holmes who has come to Devon secretly.†   (source)
  • In the original Sherlock Holmes stories Sherlock Holmes never says "Elementary, my dear Watson."†   (source)
  • That is because he wasn't like Sherlock Holmes and he believed in the supernatural.†   (source)
  • You didn't have to be Sherlock Holmes to deduce that.†   (source)
  • I wished my father would give it up and leave while the leaving was good, but he was on the case like Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • When Arthur Conan Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes at Reichenbach Falls, all of Victorian England rose as one and demanded him back.†   (source)
  • I flicked through the channels until I found something interesting—Sherlock Holmes in Terror by Night, with Basil Rathbone.†   (source)
  • And since he was in here on one side of a locked door and she was out there on the other side of it, you didn't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out that she'd slapped herself.†   (source)
  • But Sherlock Holmes isn't here, is he?†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes, he remembered.†   (source)
  • Also it says in the book Sherlock Holmes had, in a very remarkable degree, the power of detaching his mind at will.†   (source)
  • And these are some of the Red Herrings Sherlock Holmes and Watson are followed when they are in London by a man in a coach with a black beard.†   (source)
  • I like Sherlock Holmes, but I do not like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories.†   (source)
  • And Sherlock Holmes says he will stay in London, but he travels to Devon secretly and does investigations of his own.†   (source)
  • And I would go from Swindon station, where Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson stop for lunch when they are on their way to Ross from Paddington in The Boscombe Valley Mystery.†   (source)
  • And Sherlock Holmes and Watson shoot the dog, which is one of the dogs which gets killed in the story, which is not nice because it is not the dog's fault.†   (source)
  • And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head.†   (source)
  • And Sherlock Holmes finds out that Sir Charles was killed by a neighbor called Stapleton who is a butterfly collector and a distant relation of the Baskervilles.†   (source)
  • I also like The Hound of the Baskervilles because I like Sherlock Holmes and I think that if I were a proper detective he is the kind of detective I would be.†   (source)
  • Or if you see someone's name and you give each letter a value from 1 to 26 (a = 1, b = 2, etc.) and you add the numbers up in your head and you find that it makes a prime number, like Jesus Christ (151), or Scooby-Doo (113), or Sherlock Holmes (163), or Doctor Watson (167).†   (source)
  • And I am going to finish this chapter with two interesting facts about Sherlock Holmes In the original Sherlock Holmes stories Sherlock Holmes is never described as wearing a deerstalker hat, which is what he is always wearing in pictures and cartoons.†   (source)
  • Don't remember who named them but think it was Mike—I was merely a Sherlock Homes fan whereas he really did think he was Sherlock Holmes's brother Mycroft …. nor would I swear he was not; "reality" is a slippery notion.†   (source)
  • You fix upon me a look of doglike devotion and demand of me a pronouncement a la Sherlock Holmes!†   (source)
  • Do you remember how the great Sherlock Holmes doped things out in his room on Baker Street?†   (source)
  • From what I heard, Larry, you're not so good when you start playing Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • Merlyn put his fingers together like Sherlock Holmes and replied immediately, "I prefer the chaffinch.†   (source)
  • I'm no Sherlock Holmes, you know.†   (source)
  • Rafi is the Sherlock Holmes of Chandrapore.†   (source)
  • Miss Whitefield tracked you at every stopping place: she is a regular Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent as this.†   (source)
  • What do you think about it, Mr. Sherlock Holmes?†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and sitting-room at the Crown Inn.†   (source)
  • What does Dr. James Mortimer, the man of science, ask of Sherlock Holmes, the specialist in crime?†   (source)
  • I have not lived for years with Sherlock Holmes for nothing.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, all-comprehensive glances.†   (source)
  • So his name was Sherlock Holmes, was it?†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug of his shoulders.†   (source)
  • "His name," said the cabman, "was Mr. Sherlock Holmes."†   (source)
  • "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock Holmes rather sternly.†   (source)
  • "It seems a singularly useless thing to steal," said Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • Be the answer what it might, I should at least have something to report to Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your company," said Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, leaning back in his chair.†   (source)
  • "I entirely believe you, madam," said Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened it out on the table.†   (source)
  • I promise you that," said Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • And how would you describe Mr. Sherlock Holmes?†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been galvanised.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes waved our strange visitor into a chair.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar.†   (source)
  • "May all our difficulties vanish as easily!" said Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • I presume that it is Mr. Sherlock Holmes whom I am addressing and not ——†   (source)
  • "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing.†   (source)
  • "I think that on the whole you have had a fortunate escape," said Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes struck his hand against his knee with an impatient gesture.†   (source)
  • To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes was well known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted him.†   (source)
  • "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him kindly on the shoulder.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau.†   (source)
  • Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the room.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily.†   (source)
  • "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and surprise.†   (source)
  • It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran in this way: "Have you a couple of days to spare?†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came down.†   (source)
  • It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his excursion.†   (source)
  • I laughed incredulously as Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his settee and blew little wavering rings of smoke up to the ceiling.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • "Oh, yes," said Doctor Dohmler, nodding his venerable head, as if, like Sherlock Holmes, he had expected a valet and only a valet to be introduced at this point.†   (source)
  • However abstracted and impractical, Gottlieb would have made an excellent Sherlock Holmes—if anybody who would have made an excellent Sherlock Holmes would have been willing to be a detective.†   (source)
  • It would not require a Sherlock Holmes to deduce that you have been cooking over a camp-fire, to say nothing of trying out seal-blubber.†   (source)
  • Clif was sitting on the small of his back, shoeless feet upon the study table, reading a Sherlock Holmes story which rested on the powerful volume of Osler's Medicine which he considered himself to be reading.†   (source)
  • Only just as he was leaving he turned round and he said: 'It might interest you to know that you have been driving Mr. Sherlock Holmes.'†   (source)
  • Mrs. Laura Lyons was in her office, and Sherlock Holmes opened his interview with a frankness and directness which considerably amazed her.†   (source)
  • Chapter 5 Three Broken Threads Sherlock Holmes had, in a very remarkable degree, the power of detaching his mind at will.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes shrugged his shoulders.†   (source)
  • Mr. Sherlock Holmes drove with me to the station and gave me his last parting injunctions and advice.†   (source)
  • "I must thank you," said Sherlock Holmes, "for calling my attention to a case which certainly presents some features of interest.†   (source)
  • "Why, yes," said he, "and the strange thing is, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, that if my friend here had not proposed coming round to you this morning I should have come on my own account.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes made a note of it.†   (source)
  • If you are here, then it follows that Mr. Sherlock Holmes is interesting himself in the matter, and I am naturally curious to know what view he may take.†   (source)
  • Sir Henry was more pleased than surprised to see Sherlock Holmes, for he had for some days been expecting that recent events would bring him down from London.†   (source)
  • Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.†   (source)
  • Chapter 8 First Report of Dr. Watson >From this point onward I will follow the course of events by transcribing my own letters to Mr. Sherlock Holmes which lie before me on the table.†   (source)
  • Chapter 10 Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson So far I have been able to quote from the reports which I have forwarded during these early days to Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • ]" When Dr. Mortimer had finished reading this singular narrative he pushed his spectacles up on his forehead and stared across at Mr. Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • Chapter 14 The Hound of the Baskervilles One of Sherlock Holmes's defects—if, indeed, one may call it a defect—was that he was exceedingly loath to communicate his full plans to any other person until the instant of their fulfilment.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Chapter 1 Mr. Sherlock Holmes Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.†   (source)
  • Has Mr. Sherlock Holmes?†   (source)
  • "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face.†   (source)
  • "Have you never—" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and sinking his voice—"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?"†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire.†   (source)
  • I found Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin form curled up in the recesses of his armchair.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.'†   (source)
  • He was searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes."†   (source)
  • I leave a photograph which he might care to possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "Very truly yours, "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER."†   (source)
  • In a very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • The little which I had yet to learn of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back next day.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door.†   (source)
  • This is what he says: " 'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:—Lord Backwater tells me that I may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion.†   (source)
  • The photograph was of Irene Adler herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for."†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes had not come back yet.†   (source)
  • It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my bed.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together.†   (source)
  • "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing.†   (source)
  • There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the edge of the table.†   (source)
  • Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he placed his cuttings.†   (source)
  • "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.†   (source)
  • There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself.†   (source)
  • I think that the change would do you good, and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases."†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and confronted him.†   (source)
  • "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.†   (source)
  • "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.†   (source)
  • "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a confectioner's man with a very large flat box.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the compliments of the season.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his lids now and glanced across at his visitor.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • "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.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with such a quiet air of mastery.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with astonishment.†   (source)
  • While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.†   (source)
  • My name is Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • As I have reason to believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of this remarkable episode.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the official police."†   (source)
  • "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain answer."†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • My name is Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes had been silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his notice—that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel Warburton's madness.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes laughed.†   (source)
  • THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the mantelpiece.†   (source)
  • Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his data were insufficient.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • …oysters (shells included), heals several sufferers from king's evil, contracts his face so as to resemble many historical personages, Lord Beaconsfield, Lord Byron, Wat Tyler, Moses of Egypt, Moses Maimonides, Moses Mendelssohn, Henry Irving, Rip van Winkle, Kossuth, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Baron Leopold Rothschild, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes, Pasteur, turns each foot simultaneously in different directions, bids the tide turn back, eclipses the sun by extending his little finger.†   (source)
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