How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Arthur Conan DoyleStichwörter: sherlock-holmes impossible
It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this."
I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself.
"Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea."
"The board-schools."
"Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.
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I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.
Arthur Conan DoyleStichwörter: sherlock-holmes escape unconventional doctor-watson back-garden-wall late-visit scrambling
Tell me about yourself, Miss Russell."
I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some slight air of polite inattention in his manner stopped me. Instead, I found myself grinning at him.
"Why don't you tell me about myself, Mr. Holmes?
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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.
Arthur Conan DoyleStichwörter: sherlock-holmes mystery arthur-conan-doyle dr-watson
You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.
Laurie R. KingStichwörter: sherlock-holmes talents female
Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.
Arthur Conan DoyleStichwörter: sherlock-holmes mystery watson
I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.
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It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.
Arthur Conan DoyleStichwörter: sherlock-holmes doyle
I am lost without my Boswell.
[Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.]
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