To Me - With My Nerves Worked Up To A Pitch Ofexpectancy - There Was Something Depressing Andsubduing In The Sudden ______ - And In The Colddank Air Of The Vault;Through The ______ One Could Dimly Catch Aglimpse Of Bodies Lying In Strange Fantastic Poses - Bowed Shoulders - Bent Knees - Heads Thrown Back - And Chins Pointing Upward - With Here And Therea Dark - Lack-lustre Eye Turned Upon The Newcomer;"There Was A Movement And An Exclamation Frommy Right - And Peering Through The ______ - I Sawwhitney - Pale - Haggard - And Unkempt - Staring Outat Me;""Now - Watson - " Said Holmes - As A Tall Dog-cartdashed Up Through The ______ - Throwing Out Twogolden Tunnels Of Yellow Light From Its Side Lanterns; Amoment Later We Were Out On The Dark Road - A Chillwind Blowing In Our Faces - And One Yellow Lighttwinkling In Front Of Us Through The ______ To Guideus On Our Sombre Errand; She Held Up One Shakingfinger To Warn Me To Be Silent - And She Shot A Fewwhispered Words Of Broken English At Me - Her Eyesglancing Back - Like Those Of A Frightened Horse - Intothe ______ Behind Her; I Saw Theman - Too - In The ______; Hesaw Her Stealthily Open The Window - Hand Out Thecoronet To Someone In The ______ - And Then Closingit Once More Hurry Back To Her Room - Passing Quiteclose To Where He Stood Hid Behind The Curtain;"151 the Adventure Of The Copper Beeches"What Can You Not Understand?"His Whole Life Appears To Be Spent In An Alternation Between Savage Fits Of Passion And ______yintervals Of Sulking

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A collection of twelve short stories, published in 1892, by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. I The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view. In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices. Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice.
 


1. To Me - With My Nerves Worked Up To A Pitch Ofexpectancy - There Was Something Depressing Andsubduing In The Sudden ______ - And In The Colddank Air Of The Vault;Through The ______ One Could Dimly Catch Aglimpse Of Bodies Lying In Strange Fantastic Poses - Bowed Shoulders - Bent Knees - Heads Thrown Back - And Chins Pointing Upward - With Here And Therea Dark - Lack-lustre Eye Turned Upon The Newcomer;"There Was A Movement And An Exclamation Frommy Right - And Peering Through The ______ - I Sawwhitney - Pale - Haggard - And Unkempt - Staring Outat Me;""Now - Watson - " Said Holmes - As A Tall Dog-cartdashed Up Through The ______ - Throwing Out Twogolden Tunnels Of Yellow Light From Its Side Lanterns; Amoment Later We Were Out On The Dark Road - A Chillwind Blowing In Our Faces - And One Yellow Lighttwinkling In Front Of Us Through The ______ To Guideus On Our Sombre Errand; She Held Up One Shakingfinger To Warn Me To Be Silent - And She Shot A Fewwhispered Words Of Broken English At Me - Her Eyesglancing Back - Like Those Of A Frightened Horse - Intothe ______ Behind Her; I Saw Theman - Too - In The ______; Hesaw Her Stealthily Open The Window - Hand Out Thecoronet To Someone In The ______ - And Then Closingit Once More Hurry Back To Her Room - Passing Quiteclose To Where He Stood Hid Behind The Curtain;"151 the Adventure Of The Copper Beeches"What Can You Not Understand?"His Whole Life Appears To Be Spent In An Alternation Between Savage Fits Of Passion And ______yintervals Of Sulking