Цитаты из книги «The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes»

had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air

regulation side whiskers

hinging upon that one point

nimble fingers were flying here

out of a spirit of inquiry in order to have an accurate idea of the effects

struck me as being a remarkable mixture of shrewdness and of absurdity

I should like to see him clapped down in a third class carriage on the Underground, and asked to give the trades of all his fellow-travellers. I would lay a thousand to one against him.”

who evolves all these neat little paradoxes in the seclusion of his own study

He has undergone hardship and sickness, as his haggard face says clearly

dresser under me at Barts