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?
eliminated however stupidity truth whatever
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
however learned ridicule seem strange
I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem
common common-sense friend measure mental obvious primitive
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
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.
police
There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
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.
great hold landlady learned looked men noses shook small truck
The landlady looked at him in a motherly way and shook her head. "You have had no great truck with the world," she said, "or you would have learned that it is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.
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To his right walked a huge red-headed man, with broad smile and merry twinkle, whose clothes seemed to be bursting and splitting at every seam, as though he were some lusty chick who was breaking bravely from his shell.
above break contact delicate far fear high joy lest mystic pure raised rude sat soul tender thousand tongue untrained virtues ways
To his pure and knightly soul not Edith alone, but every woman, sat high and aloof, enthroned and exalted, with a thousand mystic excellencies and virtues which raised her far above the rude world of man. There was joy in contact with them; and yet there was fear, fear lest his own unworthiness, his untrained tongue or rougher ways should in some way break rudely upon this delicate and tender thing.
hot possibilities sat souls three youth
What did we care, any one of the three of us, where we sat or how we lived, when youth throbbed hot in our veins, and our souls were all aflame with the possibilities of life?
difference moon round
What the deuce is it to me? he interrupted impatiently; "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.
deceptive obvious
There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.