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All right, Watson. Don’t look so scared,” he muttered in a very weak voice. “It’s not as bad as it seems.” “Thank God for that!” “I’m a bit of a single-stick expert, as you know. I took most of them on my guard. It was

All right, Watson. Don’t look so scared,” he muttered in a very weak voice. “It’s not as bad as it seems.” “Thank God for that!” “I’m a bit of a single-stick expert, as you know. I took most of them on my guard. It was the second man that was too much for me.” “What can I do, Holmes? Of course, it was that damned fellow who set them on. I’ll go and thrash the hide off him if you give the word.” “Good old Watson!(...)

Arthur Conan Doyle
Men, Voice, Giving
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.1483, Ageless Reads

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Arthur Conan Doyle
World, Spirit, Window
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “Mysteries and Adventures”, Lulu.com

Now, Watson,” said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns. “You’ll come with me, won’t you?” “If I can be of use.” “Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Dog, Two, Yellow
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes - The Ultimate Collection: 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories & 5 Extracanonical Works”, p.345, BoD - Books on Demand

Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Hands, Violin, Evening
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.433, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Order, Cities, Evil
"The Final Problem" (1893)

You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! - and that! - and that! - and that!

Arthur Conan Doyle
Heart, World, Ruins
Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.479, GENERAL PRESS

I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Running, Skulls, Museums
Arthur Conan DOYLE (2009). “Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes”, p.310, Omnibus

Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Hate, Passion, Choices
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Horror of the Heights: And Other Tales of Suspense”, p.88, Chronicle Books

It is all in the way of professional experience.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Way, Holmes, Professional Experience
"The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels".

Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Eye, Thinking, Principles
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4472, Delphi Classics

You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?

Arthur Conan Doyle
Wind, Agents, May
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4165, Delphi Classics

""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, "fly with me! Be mine! Share with me the wild free life of a barrister! Say that you return the love which consumes my heart - oh, say it!" Here Bob put his hand over a hole in his waistcoat and struck a dramatic attitude.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Girl, Attitude, Humorous
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, John Michael Gibson, Richard Lancelyn Green (1982). “Uncollected stories”, Harvill Secker

I love and am loved by a better man than he.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Men, Better Man
Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.25, Lulu.com

He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction that the man should remain ever the doctor and the woman the nurse, and yet he felt as if a blasphemy had been committed.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Biblical, Sarcasm
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.6722, Delphi Classics

Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil

Arthur Conan Doyle
Focus, Devil, Nucleus
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “All the best stories about Sherlock Holmes”, p.352, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low drone of insects or with a sudden sharper note as bee or bluefly shot past with its quivering, long-drawn hum, like an insect tuning-fork.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Humorous, Sarcasm, Past
Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Beyond the City”, p.30, Sheba Blake Publishing

I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Sleep, Night, Men
Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.885, Wordsworth Editions

The fair sex is your department.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Sex, Dr Watson, Department
"The Adventure of the Second Stain" (1904)

I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Rose, Gentleman, May
Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.8, Zillmann Publishing

It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

Arthur Conan Doyle
Beautiful, Memories, Spring
Derrick Belanger, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “A Study in Terror: Volume 1: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Revolutionary Stories of Fear and the Supernatural”, p.203, Andrews UK Limited

He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy - those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Eye, Dark, Compassion
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “The Valley of Fear”, p.76, ebookspub

To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Dark, Son, Evil
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.17, ebookspub

Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Mind, Drs, May

Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Cat, Animal, Three
Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Conan Doyle Weirdbook”, p.136, Lulu.com

To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Children, Animal, Boys
Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.531, Wordsworth Editions

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