You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room.
These modern gramophones are a remarkable invention.
And why is he here?” “Because an illustrious client has placed her piteous case in my hands. It is the Lady Eva Blackwell, the most beautiful debutante of last season.
I abhor the dull routine of existence.
Charles Augustus Milverton was a man of fifty, with a large, intellectual head, a round, plump, hairless face, a perpetual frozen smile, and two keen gray eyes, which gleamed brightly from behind broad, gold-rimmed glasses.
We had strict injunctions, however, on no account to pass the falls of Reichenbach, which are about half-way up the hill, without making a small detour to see them.
Life is full of whimsical happenings, Watson.
You seem very anxious to lose your life.
I knew that seclusion and solitude were very necessary for my friend in those hours of intense mental concentration during which he weighed every particle of evidence, constructed alternative theories, balanced one against the other, and made up his mind as to which points were essential and which immaterial.
You then went to the vicarage, waited outside it for some time, and finally returned to your cottage.” “How do you know that?” “I followed you.” “I saw no one.” “That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.
I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.
It is very well to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing.
Poison,” said Sherlock Holmes curtly, and strode off. “One other thing, Lestrade,” he added, turning round at the door: “‘Rache,’ is the German for ‘revenge;’ so don’t lose your time looking for Miss Rachel.
Pray give my greetings to Mrs. Watson, and believe me to be, my dear fellow, Very sincerely yours, SHERLOCK HOLMES.
The cunning devil has told her every unsavoury public scandal of his past life, but always in such a way as to make himself out to be an innocent martyr. She absolutely accepts his version and will listen to no other.
Wolves or watch-dogs, it was hard to say from which the sheep had most to fear. The.
You seem very anxious to lose your life.” “To justify my life, Sir.
We must hurry up, for I want to go to Halle’s concert to hear Norman Neruda this afternoon.
I learned that my corps had advanced through the passes, and was already deep in the enemy’s country.
From a drop of water,” said the writer, “a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it. Like all other arts, the Science of Deduction and Analysis is one which can only be acquired by long and patient study nor is life long enough to allow any mortal to attain the highest possible perfection in it.