Arthur Conan
Arthur Conan
life interesting littles
And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.
simplicity drs holmes
Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.
simple simplicity may
It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.
book musical bells
The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.
data errors finding-yourself
Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You can find yourself insensibly twisting them round to suit your theories.
earth sides danger
Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?
mind criticism matter
Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
struggle purpose exhausted
It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.
husband wife teeth
The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife.
strong men weak-man
The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.
violence violent recoil
Violence recoils on the violent.
spring night animal
In shape they were like horrible toads, and moved in a succession of springs, but in size they were of an incredible bulk, larger than the largest elephant. We had never before seen them save at night, and indeed they are nocturnal animals save when disturbed in their lairs, as these had been. We now stood amazed at the sight, for their blotched and warty skins were of a curious fish-like iridescence, and the sunlight struck them with an ever-varying rainbow bloom as they moved.
cat animal three
Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.
sex dr-watson department
The fair sex is your department.