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My first impression as I opened the door was that a fire had broken out, for the room was so filled with smoke that the light of the lamp upon the table was blurred by it. As I entered, however, my fears were set at rest, for it was the acrid fumes of strong coarse tobacco which took me by the throat and set me coughing. Through the haze I had a vague vision of Holmes in his dressing-gown coiled up in an armchair with his black clay pipe between his lips.
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Hound of the Baskervilles |
"He's a comical old fellow," said Scrooge's nephew, "that's the truth: and not so pleasant as he might be. However, his offences carry their own punishment, and I have nothing to say against him."
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| Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol |
To surround anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery, is to invest it with a secret charm, and power of attraction which to the crowd is irresistible.
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| Charles Dickens | Barnaby Rudge |
"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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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet |
"No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing."
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| Oscar Wilde | Lord Arthur Savile's Crime |
It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of the same somebody else's thorns in addition to his own.
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| Charles Dickens | Hard Times |
All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.
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| H. G. Wells | The Invisible Man |
The chief part of the stories, however, turned upon the favorite spectre of Sleepy Hollow, the Headless Horseman, who had been heard several times of late, patrolling the country; and, it was said, tethered his horse nightly among the graves in the churchyard.
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| Washington Irving | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
At last, however, his conversation became unbearable--a foul young man is odious, but a foul old one is surely the most sickening thing on earth. One feels that the white upon the hair, like that upon the mountain, should signify a height attained.
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Stark Munro Letters |
I am much mistaken, however, if he has not fine strata in his nature. He is capable of rising to heights as well as of sinking to depths.
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Stark Munro Letters |
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