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10001 On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes , I find many tragic , some comic , a large number merely strange , but none commonplace ; for , working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth , he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual , and even the fantastic .
11048 Why should you attribute any importance to so grotesque an object ? "
11231 Holmes bent over this grotesque frieze for some minutes , and then suddenly sprang to his feet with an exclamation of surprise and dismay .
46884 Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a grey , melancholy hill , with a strange jagged summit , dim and vague in the distance , like some fantastic landscape in a dream .
49402 His only accomplice was one who could never give him away , and the grotesque , inconceivable nature of the device only served to make it more effective .
49423 The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined , and the very point which appears to complicate a case is , when duly considered and scientifically handled , the one which is most likely to elucidate it .
56028 Here I had heard what he had heard , I had seen what he had seen , and yet from his words it was evident that he saw clearly not only what had happened , but what was about to happen , while to me the whole business was still confused and grotesque .

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