THE END OF a case is always long, tedious, and anticlimactic,
My God, it can recognise another human being when it's hit over the head with one.
Madam, there is no treachery in the truth. There may be pain, but to face honestly all possible conclusions formed by a set of facts is the noblest route possible for a human being. Holmes could be su...
I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jeweller's box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his own....
I think not. I find short hair too much fuss, always needing combing and cutting. Long hair is much easier, oddly enough. There
But having an entire policy of ‘Us Good, Them Bad’ does little more than create a magnet for trouble-makers.
Why was the mind said to have an eye and not a hand, or a tongue? Perhaps touch, taste, odour, sound were linked to the heart rather than the intellect.
When the choice came down to tears, strong drink, or potatoes, one chooses potatoes. She
Were she not aware that he was more than a man who could make plants grow. And
Guessing is a weakness brought on by indolence and should never be confused with intuition.
Ratiocination.
You translate it, please. I have worked hard to forget what Greek I once knew.
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...
One must never disregard a message from the universe.
I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say it was an engrossing book, an...
My God...it can think.
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.
When we arrived at his cottage we had known each other forever.
Madam, there is no treachery in the truth. There may be pain, but to face honestly all possible conclusions formed by a set of facts is the noblest route possible for a human being.
The response to a festering sore was not to extol its virtues, but to lance the thing and let the poison bleed out.
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