The sign of four

Cards (88)

  • only unofficial consulting detective

    Holmes
  • my mind rebels at stagnation
    Holmes
  • science of deduction
    Holmes
  • a dense drizzly fog lay low upon the great city
    Victorian London
  • something eerie and ghost like
    on the way to Lyceum Theatre
  • I observed that Holmes took his revolver
    Shows danger
  • our nights work might be a serious one
    chapter 3
  • an oasis of art in the howling desert of london
    metaphor - Thaddeus' Home
  • I could have struck the man across the face
    Watson - protective over Mary
  • her hand was in mine
    Watson and Mary
  • shrill, broken whimpering of a frightened woman
    Pondicherry Lodge
  • half moon peeping occasionally
    Pondicherry Lodge
  • facts are better than most theories
    Altheney Jones
  • sout, portly man//red faced burly
    Altheney Jones
  • Holmes the theorist
    Altheney Jones
  • Weaving my web round Thaddeus
    metaphor - Altheney Jones
  • a friend of mr Sherlock's is always welcome

    Holmes - well known in London
  • she was weak, helpless, shaken in mind and nerve
    Mary - typical Victorian woman
  • wronged woman
    Mary
  • like a great metallic heart
    simlie
  • the furnace roared and the powerful engines whizzed and clancked
  • army surgeon with a weak leg and an even weaker banking account
    Watson - thinks he isn't good enough for the "heiress" Mary
  • mere vulgar fortune seeker
    worries about his reputation
  • am impassable barrier
    things the treasure puts Mary out of his reach
  • the romance was there
    Watson
  • abstract problem
    Holmes
  • his great power, his masterly manner
    Holmes
  • for mere passing pleasure risk the loss of those great powers you have been endowed?
    Watson to Holmes
  • I crave mental exaltation
    Holmes
  • should be treated in the same cold unemotional manner

    Holmes
  • You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism
    Holmes to Watson
  • I had forgotten how personal and painful a thing might be to you
    Holmes to Watson
  • I cannot live without brainwork
    Holmes
  • entered the room with a firm step and outward composure of manner
    Mary
  • her face had neither regularity of feature or beauty of complexion
    Mary
  • singularly spiritual and sympathetic
    Mary - triplet, sibilance - she is unique
  • her lip trembled and her hand quivered
    Mary chapter 2
  • showed every sign of intense inward agitation
    Mary
  • a choking sob cut her sentence short
    Mary
  • you really are an automaton - a calculating machine
    Holmes - robotic