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Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Last Galley Impressions
the sweat from his dripping brow. But these slaves-look at them! Some are captured Romans, some Sicilians, many black Libyans, but all are in the last exhaustion, their weary eyelids drooped over their eyes, their lips thick with black crusts, and pink with bloody froth, their arms and backs moving mechanically to the hoarse chant of the overseer. Their bodies of all tints from ivory to jet, are stripped to the waist, and every glistening back shows the angry stripes of the warders. But it is not from these that the blood comes which reddens the seats and tints the salt water washing beneath their manacled
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle _ Korku Vadisi
İnsan ne tuhaf bir yaratıktır. Cinayetle haşır neşir, kim bilir kaç kez bir ailenin babasının, gözü yaşlı eşi ya da çaresiz çocukları için hiçbir pişmanlık yahut acıma duygusu hissetmeden, hiçbir kişisel düşmanlıklarının olmadığı bir adamın canını almış bu adamların, müziğin tatlı ve dokunaklı nağmelerine kulak verince adeta gözleri yaşarıyordu."
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Adventure of the Blue
Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found in the banks of the Amoy River in soutern China and is remarkable in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the gallows and the prison?
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle _ A Study in Scarlet
There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Adventures of Sherlock
Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. {...}
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Valley of Fear
It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Adventures of Sherlock
That hurts my pride, Watson. It is a petty feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal matter with me now..."-Sherlock Holmes--The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Five Orange Pips-
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Adventures of Sherlock
You can understand,' said Holmes very suavely, 'that I extend to the affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to you in yours.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Sign of Four
What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Sign of the Four: By Sir
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle _ Sir Nigel
Perchance you shall, fair sir," said Nigel, "for all that I have seen of you fills me with this desire to go further with you. It is in my mind that we might turn this thing to profit and to honour, for when Sir Robert has spoken to you, I am free to do with you as I will.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Complete Short Stories of
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
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