A Scotchwoman’s Shortbread Biscuits Cream together ½ pound (1 cup) warm butter with ¾ cup dark brown sugar. Work in 2 ¼ cups flour—slightly less if the mixture is too dry to hold together. Chill brie...
The night air moved up towards the Downs, washing over sea and orchard. I breathed it in, and thought that henceforth, loneliness would smell to me like fermenting apples.
A spray of burning tobacco flew into the air, followed by furious slaps and the stench of scorched wool. Once Holmes was sure he was not about to go up in flames, he turned to the driver in a fury.
Ratiocination.
When we arrived at his cottage we had known each other forever.
Do to have
Do not neglect to bring your revolver, Russell. It may be needed, and it does us no good in your drawer with that disgusting cheese.My lovely Stilton; it's almost ripe, too. I do hope Mr. Thomas enjoy...
Don’t stride so, Russell! Holmes whispered fiercely. Throw your boots out in front of you as you walk and let your elbows stick out a bit. It would help if you let your mouth hang open stupidly, and f...
I looked back to see Holmes mincing within my footsteps, his skirt drawn up to reveal the trousers below. Were it not for the threat hanging over us, I would have given out with a girlish giggle at th...
One must never disregard a message from the universe.
Youth does not inspire confidence, in life or in stories,
He was a talkative man and jabbered away the whole time as his horse meandered about the road. It saved us from having to construct a story for him, though by the time he left us in Banbury, I was mos...
Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief?
When there is an emotional element in a belief, argument rarely has much effect.
When ambitious men overcome a dynasty and seize power, they inevitably adopt most of the ways of their predecessors. —THE Muqaddimah OF IBN KHALDÛN
However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the Eureka! comes it is as mysterious as if it were God speaking.
I am watching bees.
I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others, but without the passion and the deep-down, inbred lo...
You translate it, please. I have worked hard to forget what Greek I once knew.
Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting, and I turned my mind firmly to the problem at hand.
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