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1  It has been a standing jest in the family that nothing could ever wake me during the night.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
2  However, as you have been a long time in the family, I have no wish to bring public disgrace upon you.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
3  I began to talk to her about her family, and you remember that she at once gave us some exceedingly valuable details.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
4  He changed his appearance as far as he could, and trusted that the likeness, which you could not fail to observe, would be put down to a family resemblance.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk
5  My indignation at this calm examination of our family documents overcame me so far that I took a step forward, and Brunton, looking up, saw me standing in the doorway.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
6  He was a man of good family and of great ability, but of incurably vicious habits, who had by an ingenious system of fraud obtained huge sums of money from the leading London merchants.
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ContextHighlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
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