It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.

There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

Steel True, Blade Straight.

I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.