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Sherlock   /ʃˈərlˌɑk/   Listen
Sherlock

noun
1.
Someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information.  Synonyms: operative, PI, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus.



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"Sherlock" Quotes from Famous Books



... posthumous work on The Variations or Inconsistencies which are found among the Four Evangelists, (Works, vol. ii. p. 22); his essay on The Allegorical Interpretation of the Creation and Fall (ii. 122); and his criticism in 1750 on bishop Sherlock's Discourses on Prophecy, may cause Middleton to be regarded as a rationalist. See his Works, ii. 24, 131, and ...
— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar

... attended to the details, thereby winning his cantankerous approval. He had very bad manners, of which he was totally unashamed, and very good morals, of which he was somewhat doubtful, as they didn't smack of genius; a notion that he was a superior sort of Sherlock Holmes, having the truffle-hound's flair for discovering and following up clews and unraveling mysteries, most of which didn't exist outside of his own eager mind; and such a genuine passion for old and beautiful things as Balzac had. It was upon this last foundation ...
— A Woman Named Smith • Marie Conway Oemler

... at the residence of the European Secretary it was for Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope that Sherlock Holmes inquired. We were shown into ...
— The Return of Sherlock Holmes • Arthur Conan Doyle

... drily. "The great Mr. Sherlock Holmes, junior!" he remarked sarcastically. "Rubbish. Run away and don't bother me with your silly detective theories," and turned back ...
— The Young Railroaders - Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity • Francis Lovell Coombs

... must have had antecedents," I cried out. "There are two ways of doing this Sherlock Holmes business—backward and forward, you know. Let's take Doctor Jones backward. As they say in post-office forms?—what was ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) • Various


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