Цитаты из книги «Приключения Шерлока Холмса: Человек с рассеченной губой / The Man with the Twisted Lip»

life would not have been worth an hour’s purchase

quite distinctly. I glanced down

Holmes took the waterjug, moistened his sponge, and then washed the prisoner’s face.

protruding through the hole in his tattered coat.

hich present a contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out amoung the common crowd of beggars and so, too, does his wit, for he is always ready with a reply to the nonsence which may be thrown at him by the passers-by.

Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap,

many bloodstains upon the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by swimming, because the tide was at its highest point at the moment of the tragedy.

Between the wharf and the bedroom window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water.

and the evident confusion of the cripple,

in spite of the continued resistance of the proprietor,