"I know that her word is inviolate." (A Scandal in Bohemia, chapter III)
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"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 40: INVIOLATE
"I know that her word is inviolate." (A Scandal in Bohemia, chapter III)
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"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 39: PRECIPITANCE
"A little over-precipitance may ruin all." (A Scandal in Bohemia, chapter II)
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"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 38: OSTLER
"The word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of spectators, well dressed and ill—gentlemen, ostlers, and servantmaids— joined in a general shriek of 'Fire!'" (A Scandal in Bohemia, chapter II)
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"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 37: SURPLICED
"There was not a soul there save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who seemed to be expostulating with them." (A Scandal in Bohemia, chapter II)
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"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 36: MEWS
"I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the garden." (A Scandal in Bohemia, chapter II)
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"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 35: VIZARD
"He carried a broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, for his hand was still raised to it as he entered." (A Scandal in Bohemia, chapter I)
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"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 34: ASTRAKHAN
"Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat . . . " (A Scandal in Bohemia, chapter I)
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"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 33: DIAPHANOUS
"She was seated by the open window, dressed in some sort of white diaphanous material, with a little touch of scarlet at the neck and waist." (The Sign of the Four, chapter XI)
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"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 32: BLUFF
"They landed me at Vauxhall, with my heavy iron box, and with a bluff, genial inspector as my companion." (The Sign of the Four, chapter XI)
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"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 31: AQUILINE
""Pile it on, men, pile it on!" cried Holmes, looking down into the engine-room, while the fierce glow from below beat upon his eager, aquiline face." (The Sign of the Four, chapter X)
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"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 30: SLATTERNLY
"Now, however, we were beginning to come among continuous streets, where laborers and dockmen were already astir, and slatternly women were taking down shutters and brushing door-steps." (The Sign of the Four, chapter VIII)
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"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 28: PLETHORIC
"He was red-faced, burly and plethoric, with a pair of very small twinkling eyes which looked keenly out from between swollen and puffy pouches." (The Sign of the Four, chapter VI)
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"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 27: SNIBBED
"Window is snibbed on the inner side." (The Sign of the Four, chapter VI)
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"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 26: STUPEFIED
"The little man obeyed in a half-stupefied fashion, and we heard him stumbling down the stairs in the dark." (The Sign of the Four, chapter V)
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"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 25: QUERULOUS
"Suddenly, however, he broke out into a sharp, querulous cry." (The Sign of the Four, chapter V)
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"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 24: VALETUDINARIAN
"I am compelled to be a valetudinarian." (The Sign of the Four, chapter IV)
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