Baker Street Irregulars Quotes

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He said, "We’ll get the knitting club onto it." "I beg your pardon?" "We've got a dozen vampires with not enough to do, who can go out at night. They can eavesdrop on conversations, get talking to people in pubs late at night. Think of them as your Baker Street irregulars.
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Nancy Warren (The Vampire Knitting Club (Vampire Knitting Club, #1))
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In my mind ran the immortal line of James Thurber, that phrase at once so intensely comic and so pregnant with suggestions of unnameable terror: "Now we go up to the garrick and become warbs." We were going up to the garrick all right, and warbs suddenly seemed the least terrifying of the things we might become.
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Anthony Boucher (The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Fergus O'Breen Mysteries #2))
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Mr. Evans beamed. "Could I get you a drink?" he said. The words were ordinary; the phrase was one that Maureen had heard and often welcomed at endless dozens of parties. But Mr. Evans managed to invest it with such a delightful Edwardian gallantry that you almost thought he had said, "May I bring an ice to you in the conservatory?
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Anthony Boucher (The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Fergus O'Breen Mysteries #2))
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Even Asmodeus, that limping devil who looked through rooftops at men's most secret actions, could not have told which of these thoughts masked an undercurrent of joy -- the joy of the man who know that he has killed wisely and well.
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Anthony Boucher (The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Fergus O'Breen Mysteries #2))
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The working press -- a strange expression that; it calls up a picture of a horde of other pressmen lolling about Hollywood on sumptuous divans, smother by bevies of attendant odalisques, and thinking scornfully of their colleagues of the WORKING press -- the working press took kindly to the reception for the Baker Street Irregulars.
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Anthony Boucher (The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Fergus O'Breen Mysteries #2))
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Watson, temanku, katakan padaku apa yang merasuki pikiranku ketika aku memutuskan menagangani kasus di mana pelaku yang dicurigai telah meninggal dunia?" - Sherlock Holmes
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Tracy Mack (The Mystery of the Conjured Man (Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars #2))
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Except to Mrs. Harker. And just a few minutes ago you were urging me to help her.” β€œBut that was before you were asked to help put a stop to the bombings. I confess that your reasoning baffles me.” β€œNot for the first time, Watson. And probably not for the last.
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Robert Newman (The Case of the Baker Street Irregular (Andrew Tillet, Sara Wiggins & Inspector Wyatt Book 1))
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You know, Mr. Holmes, you could make a fortune on the stage reading minds. Would you like to go a step further and tell me what I’ve come to see you about?” β€œI suspect it’s yesterday’s bombing in the Baker Street Underground station.” Gregory continued to stare at him for a moment, then slapped his thigh. β€œMr. Holmes, no matter how high my regard for you is, it’s clear I don’t regard you highly enough.” β€œThat goes without saying,” said Holmes with only the slightest touch of irony.
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Robert Newman (The Case of the Baker Street Irregular (Andrew Tillet, Sara Wiggins & Inspector Wyatt Book 1))
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And it seems to me, Miss O'Breen, that to forswear mercy is to forswear humanity. If to destroy evil we take up its very weapons, we shall learn in time that all we have destroyed is the best in ourselves. [Jonadab Evans]
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Anthony Boucher (The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (Fergus O'Breen Mysteries #2))
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In a battle which might interest scholars of modern urban warfare, the Conduit Street Comanche whipped the tar out of an irregular band of crybaby destitutes who pledged allegiance to the Watson’s departed mucker-wallah.
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Kim Newman (Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles)