the lost world arthur conan doyle quotes

... and there can be no doubt that the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, which should have the effect of calling the attention of the authorities to the condition of the ... looks as if they always send their singular warning or token before them when starting upon their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign when it came from Dundee. If they had come ... THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Five Orange Pips (2) The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and turning to the table he shook out

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 20:15

... THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal of the Theological College ... the office of the company is in Fresno... their way to their beat The inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their ... shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the effects. There

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... THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP (2) "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple showed, made the inspector ... near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from the ... sucked away into the river." "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" "No, sir, but the facts might

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... THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP (3) A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our disposal, and I was quickly between the ... Street. Sherlock Holmes was well known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. "Who is on duty?" ... it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, I confess, to my

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... THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (2) When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. ... "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. ... the geese?' One would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the fuss that is made over them." "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been making

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... And now let us hear a true account of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies your only hope of safety." ... THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (3) Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. ... "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, &apos ;the same as the one I chose?' "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never tell them apart.'

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... THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 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 ... buildings. Of these bedrooms the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open out into the same corridor. ... me," said he. " ;The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, and Hampshire in the west. In the last century,

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... THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Adventure of the Speckled Band (2) For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which fringed the hand that lay ... up all the furniture in the room save for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre The boards round and the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak,... panelling of the walls ... hung down beside... the bed, the tassel actually lying upon the pillow "It goes to the housekeeper's room." "It looks newer than the other things?" "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years

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... ventilator, and to the bell-rope which down to the bed The discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was there as a ... where the poison fangs had done their work Then I thought of the whistle Of course he rmiust recall the snake before the morning light revealed it to the victim He had tramed it, probably by the ... face he lit the lamp and led the way down the corridor Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply from within Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his heels, with the cocked

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... THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 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 Of these the latter may have afforded ... than when the facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads on to the complete truth At the time the circumstances

Ngày tải lên: 22/01/2014, 01:20

... were, right out of the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that I had crossed the threshold the door slammed ... mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining the trough. ... preliminary sound in the midst of the utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind her, the yellow light from my lamp

Ngày tải lên: 22/01/2014, 01:20

... THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (3) "This time, at least, ... along the corridor and down a winding stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of two voices, one answering the ... view at the further end of the passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a butcher's cleaver in the other.

Ngày tải lên: 22/01/2014, 01:20

... transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the original ... THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, ... legs towards the fire. "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a call for protection in the marriage

Ngày tải lên: 22/01/2014, 01:20

... by the fire spinning fine theories Good-day, Mr Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them into the bag, and made for the ... found floating near the margin by a park-keeper They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." "By the same brilliant ... THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor (2) The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down into the fire "You see,

Ngày tải lên: 22/01/2014, 01:20

... THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor (3) Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, tapped ... into the room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his conclusions. "They have laid the supper, then," ... right there; and then Frank went off to seek his fortune, and I went back to pa. " ;The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then he went prospecting in Arizona, and then

Ngày tải lên: 22/01/2014, 01:20

... without further parley from my own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be rather more than it could bear If, on the other hand, I am to it in the name of the firm, then in ... THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking down the street, "here ... he had named 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable The lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the sum which

Ngày tải lên: 22/01/2014, 01:20

... What did they say, then, of the disappearance of these gems?" "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture in the hope of finding them." "Have they ... coronet and of Arthur& apos;s face, she read the whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the investigation into their hands ... it, went off to some other place, concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six into the room in which he

Ngày tải lên: 22/01/2014, 01:20

... translation of the ‘‘War Hymn of the Boers,’’ ‘‘sung by the Boers in their camps during the Majuba campaign’’ (Majuba was the scene of the infamous Boer defeat of the British in the first Boer ... propa- gandist, popular fiction writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Stead and Doyle use the notion of chivalry as a key trope for the discussion of the ethics of the conduct of the war itself, but both men eventually ... use of the notion of chivalry as did the anti-suffragist Arthur Conan Doyle. As Mark Girouard’s lavish The Return to Camelot illustrates, the revival of ‘ the code of medieval chivalry, and the knights,...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... two nights ago was the brother. I have been looking up the dates in the old files of the paper, and I find that the disappearance of the pearl was exactly two days before the arrest of Beppo, ... order to the way THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAY DOYLE The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (3) Holmes spent the evening in rummaging among the files of the old daily papers ... with the happiest results. By that time, of course, I knew for certain that it was the Borgia pearl that we were after. The name of the murdered man linked the one event with the other. There...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 01:15

... see, was the stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious ... each other, they were really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower buttons out of five, and the other at the ... at the "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the other is to the young lady's stepfather,...

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