Tales of Sherlock HolmesA. L. Burt Company, Publishers, 1906 - 415 sayfa |
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Agra answered appeared Arthur Stringer asked Athelney Jones Baker Street Berta Ruck brother companion cried crime dark death detective door Drebber Edison Marshall eyes face father followed gentleman glance Gregson hand Harold Bell Wright head heard heart horse Hosmer Angel Irene Adler Jefferson Hope Jeffery Farnol John Ferrier Jonathan Small Joseph Kathleen Norris knew L. M. Montgomery laughed launch Lestrade light lips look Lucy Major Sholto Mary Roberts Rinehart matter mind Miss Morstan morning Mulford murder mystery never night o'clock once Phillips Oppenheim police remarked Rex Beach round Sax Rohmer seemed Sherlock Holmes side smile spoke stairs Stangerson steps stood strange sure tell Thaddeus Sholto thing thought tion Toby took treasure turned voice walked watch Watson Windibank window woman word young
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Sayfa 30 - Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brainattic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have...
Sayfa 373 - Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year 1858. Contralto — hum! La Scala — ' hum ! Prima donna Imperial Opera of Warsaw — yes ! Retired from operatic stage — ha ! Living in London — quite so ! Your majesty, as I understand, became entangled with this. young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and is now desirous of getting those letters back.
Sayfa 198 - morphine or cocaine?" He raised his eyes languidly from the old blackletter volume which he had opened. "It is cocaine," he said — "a seven per cent, solution. Would you care to try it?" "No, indeed,
Sayfa 199 - Count the cost ! Your brain may, as you say, be roused and excited, but it is a pathological and morbid process, which involves increased tissue-change, and may at last leave a permanent weakness.
Sayfa 202 - Oh, didn't you know?" he cried, laughing. "Yes, I have been guilty of several monographs. They are all upon technical subjects. Here, for example, is one 'Upon the Distinction between the Ashes of the Various Tobaccos.
Sayfa 205 - Quite so. The W. suggests your own name. The date of the watch is nearly fifty years back, and the initials are as old as the watch; so it was made for the last generation.
Sayfa 250 - How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Sayfa 188 - That is a very useful accomplishment and a very easy one, but people do not practice it much. In the every-day affairs of life it is more useful to reason forward, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.