Plants in Sherlock stories.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: "Bronzing bracken and mottled bramble gleamed in the light of the sinking sun."
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: "The wagonette swung round into a side road, and we curved upward through deep lanes worn by centuries of wheels, high banks on either side, heavy with dripping moss... Más
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: "'Sir Charles Baskerville was in the habit every night before going to bed of walking down the famous yew alley of Baskerville Hall'" "'There are two lines of old y... Más
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The Naval Treaty: "'I chose the place where the three fir-trees stand, and behind their screen I got over without the least chance of anyone in the house being able to see me."
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A Study in Scarlet: "The keen air of the mountains and the balsamic odour of the pine trees took the place of nurse and mother to the young girl."
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The Adventure of the Three Gables: "Behind was a grove of melancholy, half-grown pines, and the whole aspect of the place was poor and depressing."
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A Study in Scarlet: "So steep were the rocky banks on either side of them that the larch and the pine seemed to be suspended over their heads, and to need only a gust of wind to come hurtling down... Más
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The Adventure of the Six Napoleons: "In the light of a street lamp we read "Laburnum Villa" upon the gate-post of one of them."
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Silver Blaze: "'About a quarter of a mile from the stables John Straker's overcoat was flapping from a furze-bush.'"
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The Adventure of the Creeping Man: "Such a one on the back of a smart hansom swept us past a row of ancient colleges and, finally turning into a tree-lined drive, pulled up at the door of a charmi... Más
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The Final Problem: "A few yards from the end the soil was all ploughed up into a patch of mud, and the brambles and ferns which fringed the chasm were torn and bedraggled."
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The Adventure of the Illustrious Client: "The next instant he was through the gap, and I heard the crash of his body among the laurel bushes outside." The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier: "'... Más
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The Musgrave Ritual: "'Where was the sun?' 'Over the oak.' 'Where was the shadow?' 'Under the elm.'"
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The Naval Treaty: "'I crouched down among the bushes on the other side and crawled from one to the other--witness the disreputable state of my trouser knees--until I had reached the clump of rhodo... Más
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The Adventure of the Priory School: "We picked up the track and followed it onward for some distance, but soon the moor rose into a long, heather-tufted curve, and we left the watercourse behind us."
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The Musgrave Ritual: "There were two guides given us to start with, an oak and an elm. As to the oak there could be no question at all. Right in front of the house, upon the left-hand side of the ... Más
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The Yellow Face: "One day in early spring he had so far relaxed as to go for a walk with me in the Park, where the first faint shoots of green were breaking out upon the elms, and the sticky spear... Más
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The Adventure of the Copper Beeches: "The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunte... Más
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The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge: "'It is very pleasant to see the first green shoots upon the hedges and the catkins on the hazels once again.'"
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The Adventure of the Norwood Builder: "'Nothing was to been seen save that some body or bundle had been dragged through a low privet hedge which ins in a line with the wood-pile.'"
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The Adventure of the Lion's Mane: "It would have been a pleasant walk across the thyme-scented downs had our minds not been poisoned by the tragedy we had witnessed."
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: "'Would you mind getting that orchid for me amongst the mare's-tails yonder?'"
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The Adventure of the Six Napoleons: "'You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the b... Más
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The Adventure of the Priory School: "'His window was open, and there is a stout ivy plant leading to the ground.'" "In his case a trailer of ivy had given way under his weight, and we saw by the ... Más
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The Valley of Fear: "A lovely violet growing upon one of those black slag-heaps of the mines would not have seemed more surprising."
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The Problem of Thor Bridge: "It was a wild morning in October, and I observed as I was dressing how the last remaining leaves were being whirled from the solitary plane tree which graces the yard ... Más
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The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place: "'I shall stand behind this holly-bush and see what I can see.'"
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: "Something brown was rolling and tossing among the green sedges."
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: "We found a short valley between rugged tors which led to an open, grassy space flecked over with the white cotton grass."
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A Study in Scarlet: "With bated breath and crouching figures they stumbled across it, and gained the shelter of the hedge, which they skirted until they came to the gap which opened into the cornf... Más
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A Study in Scarlet: "In the country there was draining and hedging, planting and clearing, until the next summer saw the whole country golden with the wheat crop."
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The Problem of Thor Bridge: "'Do you tell me that after carrying out so crafty a crime you would now ruin your reputation as a criminal by forgetting to fling your weapon into those adjacent reed-... Más
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: "From the end of it a small wand planted here and there showed where the path zig-zagged from tuft to tuft of rushes among those green-scummed pits and foul quagmire... Más
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: "'Would you mind getting that orchid for me amongst the mare's-tails yonder? We are very rich in orchids on the moor, though, of course, you are rather late to see t... Más
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band: "'But I have heard that the crocuses promise well,' continued my companion imperturbably." The Adventure of the Empty House: "The drop was at least twenty f... Más