The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [467]
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Relating to the Chaldeans, an ancient Semitic people who once ruled Babylo nia.
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Germany declared war on Russia to start World War I on that day.
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Four-horse team controlled by a single driver.
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Usually sweet, white wine from the Tokay district of Hungary.
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Franz Josef (1830-1916) was emperor of Austria and king of Hungary.
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Strait 15 miles long between Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
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George Lewis (1833-1911), the most prestigious solicitor (lawyer) of the age.
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Charlie Peace (1832-1879), a violinist and burglar who was hanged for several murders.
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Thomas Griffiths Wainwright (1794-1852), painter and poisoner.
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Prison on the Isle of Wight.
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A king, queen, jack, or ace.
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Street thugs.
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One-handed fencing stick fitted with a hand guard.
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Inflammatory skin disease.
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Well-known auction house, like Sotheby, mentioned below.
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Sulfuric acid.
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Reference to the Bible, Romans 6:23: “The wages of sin is death” (KJV).
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A cockade was an ornament worn on a coachman’s hat as a livery badge.
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Family coat of arms.
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London’s equivalent of Wall Street.
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Victoria Cross, a medal for bravery.
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Quarrel.
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South African Dutch for veranda.
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See the first story in this volume, “The Adventure of the Empty House.”
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Apparatus for carbonating water.
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Named for Cardinal Jules Mazarin (1602—1661), minister to Louis XIV of France.
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This is the first time in all the stories that we hear of a waiting room at 221B Baker Street; or of the “second exit” on the this page.
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Squealed, ratted on.
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Boatman’s song from Tales of Hoffman, by Jacques Offenbach (1819—1880).
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Sly fellow.
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This first-name address is very un-Holmesian, raising deep suspicions about the authorship of the story.
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This snide comment to a social inferior is behavior inconceivable for a gentleman.
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Raphael Sanzio (1483—1520) was one of the great painters of the Italian High Renaissance.
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The First Folio, the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s works, was printed in 1623. It is extremely valuable.
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Since when did Holmes ever need anyone else’s opinion to settle a matter?
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Reference to the Bible, Isaiah 36:6: “Thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed” (KJV).
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Not the sort of self-assessment we’ve ever heard from Holmes before.
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Mentioned here and on p. 560 but nowhere else in the stories.
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Puzzle that represents a word or phrase by a picture or symbol that sound like parts of the words in question.
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Commodities market, where wheat and other grains are traded.
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Hanging tree where public executions took place until 1783; stood near Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, London.
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The early Georges (I-IV) ruled between 1714 and 1830; George V ruled from 1910 to 1936.
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From the ancient Greek city of Syracuse in Sicily.
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Sloane (1660-1753) was a naturalist, physician, and collector; his library and collection of curiosities were important contributions to the British Museum when it was founded in 1753.
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Catalog of the crimes of the inmates of London’s Newgate Prison.
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Short crowbar used in burglaries.
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Sycamore tree.
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Popular women’s magazine specializing in romances.
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Boosting your reputation.
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Scottish expression meaning “out of the way.”
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Fictitious place; combination of Cambridge and Oxford.
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London Post Office abbreviation for “Eastern Central.”
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Tube inserted into a body cavity to drain fluid or give medicine.
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Old word for psychiatrist.
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Reared up.
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Sussex Downs, a chalky, treeless expanse on the southern coast of England.
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Student at Oxford or Cambridge who represents the university in a sport.
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Loose or crumbly earthy deposit containing calcium carbonate; can be used as a fertilizer.
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Forced out of its normal vessels into surrounding tissue.
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The text never makes quite clear that Cyanea capillata, also known as the Lion’s Mane, is a type of jellyfish.
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Wombwell and Sanger were proprietors of well-known traveling