Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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2,747 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Aug
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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said I.
"'This is grove and a mixture, at eight pence an ounce,' Holmes answered, knocking a little out on his palm."
As he might get an excellent smoke for half the price, he has no need to practice economy.
Any other points?
He has been in the habit of lighting his pipe at lamps and gas-jets, and you can see that it is quite charred all down one side.
Of course a match could not have done that.
Why should a man hold a match to the side of his pipe?
But you cannot light it at a lamp without getting the bowl charred.
and it is all on the right side of the pipe.
From that I gather that he is a left-handed man.
You hold your own pipe to the lamp, and see how naturally you, being right-handed, hold the left side to the flame.
You might do it once the other way, but not as a constancy.
This has always been held so.
Then he has bitten through his amber,
It takes a muscular, energetic fellow, and one with a good set of teeth, to do that.
But if I am not mistaken, I hear him upon the stair, so we shall have something more interesting than his pipe to study.
An instant later our door opened, and a tall young man entered the room.
He was well but quietly dressed in a dark grey suit, and carried a brown wide-awake in his hand.
I should have put him at about thirty, though he was really some years older."
"'I beg your pardon,' said he, with some embarrassment.
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