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  The Adventure of the Creeping Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Adventure of the Creeping Man, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes.
Holmes later finds out from his "general utility man" Mercer that Dorak is indeed a Bohemian, elderly, suave man who keeps a large general store.
It contained a drug, as Holmes expected, but there was also a letter there from a man named Lowenstein who, it turns out, is a quack whose help the professor sought out as a way of achieving rejuvenation, which he thought would be advisable if he were going to marry a young woman.
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He was a man of habits, narrow and concentrated habits, and I had become one of them.
We heard the rattle of falling metal, and the next instant dog and man were rolling on the ground together, the one roaring in rage, the other screaming in a strange shrill falsetto of terror.
The highest type of man may revert to the animal if he leaves the straight road of destiny." He sat musing for a little with the phial in his hand, looking at the clear liquid within.
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 The Adventure of the Creeping Man - Wikisource
There was a quick step on the stairs, a sharp tap at the door and a moment later the new client presented himself.
There was certainly no sign of eccentricity either in his manner or appearance, for he was a portly, largefeatured man, grave, tall, and frock-coated, with the dignity of bearing which a lecturer needs.
Presently he tired of this amusement, and, dropping from branch to branch, he squatted down into the old attitude and moved towards the stables, creeping along in the same strange way as before.
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 Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Creeping Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Was it for so trivial a question as this that I had been summoned from my work?
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 221B Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
t was pleasant to Dr. Watson to find himself once more in the untidy room of the first floor in Baker Street which had been the starting-point of so many remarkable adventures.
He looked round him at the scientific charts upon the wall, the acid-charred bench of chemicals, the violin-case leaning in the corner, the coal scuttle, which contained of old the pipes and tobacco.
y a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt- cuffs -- by each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed.
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 The Adventure of the Creeping Man
But is it not on the face of it strange that a staid, elderly philosopher–you’ve heard of Presbury, of course, the famous Camford physiologist?–that such a man, whose friend has been his devoted wolfhound, should now have been twice attacked by his own dog?
There was certainly no sign of eccentricity either in his manner or appearance, for he was a portly, large-featured man, grave, tall, and frock-coated, with the dignity of bearing which a lecturer needs.
Holmes is a well-known man. You cannot possibly treat him with such discourtesy.”
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 The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection - The Adventure Of The Creeping Man - World's Greatest Classic Books
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection - The Adventure Of The Creeping Man - World's Greatest Classic Books
He shook hands with Holmes, and then looked with some sur- prise at me.
Holmes is a well- known man. You cannot possibly treat him with such discourtesy."
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 1903 in History (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
May 26 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Gables"
September 6 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Creeping Man"
September 7 Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY September 9 6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel of Switzerland inaugurated
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