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- It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship.Adventure IX — The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (84% in)
There are no more uses of "out-and-out" in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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