Arthur Doyle
Arthur Doyle
Arthur Doylewas an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, zanzithophonist and vocalist...
eliminated however whatever
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
across bars circular clouds crowded dense dreary eerie endless faces feeble fog gloom great haggard human lay light low muddy narrow radiance sadly september seven shifting strand threw yellow
It was a September evening, and not yet seven o'clock, but the day had been a dreary one, and a dense drizzly fog lay low upon the great city. Mud-colored clouds drooped sadly over the muddy streets. Down the Strand the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy pavement. The yellow glare from the shop-windows streamed out into the steamy, vaporous air, and threw a murky, shifting radiance across the crowded thoroughfare. There was, to my mind, something eerie and ghost-like in the endless procession of faces which flitted across these narrow bars of light,--sad faces and glad, haggard and merry. Like all human kind, they flitted from the gloom into the light, and so back into the gloom once more.
angry cerebral mental professor touch view
The Professor snorted like an angry buffalo. "You really touch the limit," said he. "You enlarge my view of the possible. Cerebral paresis! Mental inertia! Wonderful!
matter possibilities whatever
When the impossibility has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how improbable... is possible.
police
There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
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A man loses his fortune; he gains earnestness. His eyesight goes; it leads him to a spirituality. The girl loses her beauty; she becomes more sympathetic. We think we are pushing our own way bravely, but there is a great Hand in ours all the time.
ashes cigarette forty hundred
A little monograph on the ashes of one hundred and forty different varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco.
clear spring
Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.
case dear fact missing possible
Dear me, Watson, is it possible that you have not penetrated the fact that the case hangs upon the missing dumb-bell?
black borne broken cry fall far gleam since
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.
air closed far lived london record survey sweeter wholly
I think that I may go so far as to say, Watson, that I have not lived wholly in vain, he remarked. "If my record were closed to-night I could still survey it with equanimity. The air of London is the sweeter for my presence.
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Our young friend makes up for many obvious mental lacunae by some measure of primitive common sense, remarked Challenger.
cesspool drained empire great
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers of the Empire are irresistibly drained