There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.