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«You have probably never heard of Professor Moriarty? said he.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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professor
«To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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caution, commend, crossing, Crossing the, forbear, moor, mooring, Moors, The Moor
«The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?»
«Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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caution
«My dear Watson, Professor Moriarty is not a man who lets the grass grow under his feet.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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professor
«Any attempt at recovering the bodies was absolutely hopeless, and there, deep down in that dreadful caldron of swirling water and seething foam, will lie for all time the most dangerous criminal and the foremost champion of the law of their generation.»
«It had darkened since I left, and now I could only see here and there the glistening of moisture upon the black walls, and far away down at the end of the shaft the gleam of the broken water. I shouted; but only the same half-human cry of the fall was borne back to my ears.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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black bear, darkened, glisten, glistening, human ear, moisture, see here, shaft, shouted, shout down, The Fall
«When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.»
«Dear me, Watson, is it possible that you have not penetrated the fact that the case hangs upon the missing dumb-bell?»
«Of all ruins, that of a fine man is the saddest.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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