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Sentence count:221+2Posted:2017-07-25Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: oliver wendell holmesenrolmentholmiummalcolm xpatrolmanschoolmateschoolmasterfilmedMeaning: n. 1. a fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle 2. United States jurist noted for his liberal opinions (1841-1935) 3. United States writer of humorous essays (1809-1894) 4. English geologist and supporter of the theory of continental drift (1890-1965). 
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(151) While Watson was a man of average intelligence, Holmes was a genius, whose gift for ratiocination made him a superb detective.
(152) In 1931, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said when speaking about the Delaware River: "A river is more than an amenity; it is a treasure."
(153) The polymath Doyle tried to kill off Holmes at the turn of the century, but public outcry encouraged the author to resuscitate the archetypal detective in 1901's The Hound of the Baskervilles.
(154) Tony Holmes wiped the smile off the faces of his rivals with a solo 30-second win.
(155) This I presume is your celebrated friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes?
(156) Mary Holmes of Rockford is coming to stay with me a few days next week.
(157) May 2001: Were Sherlock Holmes a cosmologist, he might have said, "It's filamentary, my dear Watson."
(158) Danny Holmes fouled by Marc Pugh, the ref awards a free kick.
(159) Holmes crossed two compatible races of ceratocystis ulmi, the causal agent of Dutch elm disease.
(160) Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case.
(161) Oliver Wendell Holmes once remarked that "To fight out a war, you must believe something and want something with all your might."
(162) For my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part(Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(163) A hard-hitting and often controversial figure in British media, the Irish-born Holmes became a lifelong Manchester United fan because of one man: George Best.
(164) For Holmes, society was Boston, the city of which he was poet - laureate.
(165) J. T. Holmes of Squaw Valley, California, who has made about a thousand wing-suit jumps, says, "It's as close as human beings can get to flying like a bird."
(166) Doyle's Holmes was a cokehead and tobacco user,[sentence dictionary] and even dabbled in morphine.
(167) He quoted Oliver Wendell Holmes, the late Supreme Court justice. He quoted Bobby Kennedy.
(168) NASA's Spitzer Space Telescopecaptured this image of comet Holmes in March 2008, five months afterthe comet suddenly erupted and brightened a millionfold overnight.
(169) CNN's Jonathan Wald, Nic Robertson, Michael Holmes, Jennifer Deaton, Erin McLaughlin, Chelsea J.
(170) "I went into this campaign with the feeling that if we did half the sales of the last record, that would be great, " said Dave Holmes, Coldplay's manager.
(171) Holmes thinks that snobbery is the biggest obstacle to improving sales. People undervalue salespeople.
(172) The officer in charge of the program, Colonel Eugene Holmes, told me he was taking me because I would be of greater service to the country as an officer than as a draftee.
(173) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes to the reading public in 1887 in his novel A Study in Scarlet.
(174) Foul by Danny Holmes on Marc Pugh, free kick awarded.
(175) In the books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, his friend, Dr Watson, describes Holmes as “eccentric, with no regard for contemporary standards of tidiness or good order.
(176) Whodunit: Doyle created original super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes, but he also did some crime-fighting himself.
(177) "Some excellent remarks were made on immortality, but mainly borrowed from and credited to Plato" (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. ).
(178) I am Brad Pitt, Sherlock Holmes and Charles Dickens all rolled into one.
(179) OK! named Holmes, the 28-year-old wife of Tom Cruise, a beauty queen because of her "refreshing girl-next-door look " and sporty cropped haircut.
(180) Fish and chips, Sherlock Holmes and Monty Python have joined cricket, pubs and red double-decker buses on a growing list of England's national treasures.
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