The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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Tall and gaunt figure, with a long, thin, nervous hands. Has a hawk-like nose, a strong-set aquiline features. His face is pale, with sallow cheeks. He has keen, piercing eyes that sparkle when excited. His hair is dark. He is often seen in a dressing-gown, or tweed-suited. He has a long, thin, curled form. His expression is often languid or dreamy, but can become fierce and intent when on a case. He has a high forehead and a sharp, incisive manner.

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A medical man, with a military neatness. He has a habit of shaving every morning. He is of medium build, with a strong, masculine face. He has a kind, good-humoured expression. He is often described as wearing a top-hat and carrying a stethoscope. He has a slight limp from a jezail bullet wound received in Afghanistan.

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A lovely woman with a face that a man might die for. She has a superb figure, and is the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. She has a soul of steel and the face of the most beautiful of women. She is an actress and singer, with a contralto voice.

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A man of strong character, with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. He is tall, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His dress is rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with rich brown fur. He has a high white forehead.

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A very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. He is obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a wrinkled velvet collar. His blazing red head is remarkable. He has a thick red finger.

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Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon his forehead. His ears are pierced for earrings. He is clean-shaven, bright-looking. His knees are worn, wrinkled, and stained.

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A clean-cut, boyish face. He is lithe and small, with a pale face and a shock of very red hair. He has a white, almost womanly hand. He is young, with a smooth face. He has a cool, serene manner.

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A large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her ear. She has a broad, good-humoured face. She is short-sighted. She wore a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and were worn through at the right forefinger. She had small round, hanging gold earrings. Her boots were odd ones, one with a slightly decorated toe-cap, and the other a plain one. She has a somewhat vacuous face.

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A sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and penetrating grey eyes. He has a pale face. He wears a shiny top-hat.

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A man of a very violent temper. He is somewhat cold and forbidding in his manners. He is an ex-Australian. He was found dead with his head beaten in.

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A lad of eighteen, comely to look at and sound at heart. He is not very quick-witted. He has a strong, masculine face. He is young and has seen very little of life.

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One of the most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her cheeks. She has a fresh young face. She is impulsive and full of concern.

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A strange and impressive figure. His slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were tinged with a shade of blue. He is about sixty, with a constitution shattered by his life abroad.

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Young, some two-and-twenty at the outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of refinement and delicacy in his bearing. His face is pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is weighed down with some great anxiety. He wears a golden pince-nez. He has a thin, white hands.

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A man of thirty-seven years of age, of temperate habits, a good husband, a very affectionate father. He is a man who is popular with all who know him. He has a refined-looking face, black-haired and smooth-skinned. He is pale and sad-faced. He is a middle-sized man.

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A crippled wretch of hideous aspect. A shock of orange hair, a pale face disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a pair of very penetrating dark eyes. He is extremely dirty. He has a broad wheal from an old scar running right across his face from eye to chin. He is a middle-sized man, coarsely clad.

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A tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a coat which was buttoned up to his chin. He is a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight tremor of his extended hand. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He speaks in a slow staccato fashion.

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A little rat-faced fellow. He has a white face, and is small and thin. He has a quavering voice. He is the head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan.

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A lady dressed in black and heavily veiled. Her face all drawn and grey, with restless frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features and figure are those of a woman of thirty, but her hair is shot with premature grey, and her expression is weary and haggard. She has a white wrist with five little livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb.

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A huge man, so tall that his hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old bird of prey. He has a peculiar mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. He is a man of immense strength. He has a long grey dressing-gown, bare ankles, and red heelless Turkish slippers.

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A young man, not more than five-and-twenty, with a strong, masculine face; but he is exceedingly pale. He is quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a soft cloth cap. He has a thumb that has been hacked or torn right out from the roots. He has a high, ringing laugh.

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A man rather over the middle size, but of an exceeding thinness. His whole face sharpened away into nose and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over his outstanding bones. His eye is bright, his step brisk, and his bearing assured. He is plainly but neatly dressed. His age is nearer forty than thirty. He has a German accent. He has a cadaverous face and grey eyes.

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A gentleman with a pleasant, cultured face, high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His manner is brisk, and yet his general appearance gives an undue impression of age, for he has a slight forward stoop and a little bend of the knees as he walks. His hair is grizzled round the edges and thin upon the top. His dress is careful to the verge of foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. He swings a cord which holds his golden eyeglasses.

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A very lovely woman with lustrous black hair, large dark eyes, and an exquisite mouth. She has a graceful figure and striking face. She is impetuous, volcanic, and fearless. She is a tomboy, with a strong nature, wild and free.

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A man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He is dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. He has a fixed look of grief and despair in his eyes. He has a broad and massive mould of face, now pinched and fallen in, with hair that seems at least a shade whiter.

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A young lady rather above the middle height, slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against the absolute pallor of her skin. Her lips are bloodless, but her eyes are flushed with crying. She is a woman of strong character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. She has expressive black eyes.

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A young lady plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a woman who has had her own way to make in the world. Her hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of chestnut. It has been considered artistic.

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A prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat. He wears a pair of glasses on his nose. He is a comfortable-looking man. He has a bluff, boisterous fashion. His eyes are just two little shining slits amid the white creases of his face. He is not less than forty-five. He has a round, jovial appearance, but can become red with anger, with veins standing out at his temples.

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A silent, pale-faced woman, much younger than her husband, not more than thirty. She is colourless in mind as well as in feature. She has light grey eyes. She is a nonentity. She has a sad, anxious look upon her face.

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A very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. She is gaunt.

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A rough, uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual smell of drink. He is the groom. He has a red face and shaking limbs.

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A remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached. He is a lawyer of the Inner Temple. He is dashing and appears to be in a great hurry.

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The official police agent. He is a bulky man, as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster. He has a consequential way.

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A long, thin, sad-faced man, with a very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. He is a bank director.

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A lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking. He wears a light brown dustcoat and leather-leggings. He is a detective from Scotland Yard. He has a decided nautical appearance when in a pea-jacket and cravat.

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A girl of fourteen, daughter of the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate.

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A game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner.

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A tall, stout official, in a peaked cap and frogged jacket.

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The landlady at Baker Street. She is a good, honest woman.

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The commissionaire. He is a very honest fellow. He has flushed cheeks.

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A horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers. He is a salesman in Covent Garden.

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A woman who lives at 117, Brixton Road, and supplies eggs and poultry.

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Maid to the Countess of Morcar.

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A plumber, 26 years old. He has a previous conviction for robbery.

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The owner of the blue carbuncle. She is a countess.

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The landlord of the Alpha Inn. He is ruddy-faced and white-aproned.

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Helen Stoner's twin sister. She was thirty at the time of her death, with hair that had already begun to whiten. She was engaged to a half-pay major of marines.

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The second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. He is Helen Stoner's fiancé.

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A pretty woman with a beautiful face, dark dress, rich material. She is the wife or companion of Colonel Lysander Stark. She is sick with fear.

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A short thick man with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double chin. He is the secretary and manager. He is morose and silent.

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A danseuse at the Allegro. She is a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed. She has a jealous nature.

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A small, wiry, sunburnt man, clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. He is an American.

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The maid of Hatty Doran. She is an American and came from California with her. She is a confidential servant.

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A man of great personal beauty, a brilliant talker, and a man of the world. He is older than Arthur Holder. He has a cynical speech and a look in his eyes that suggests he should be deeply distrusted. He is a ruined gambler, an absolutely desperate villain.

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The only son of Alexander Holder. He is wild, wayward, and charming. He is young, with a passion that shows he is not naturally evil. He is described as a noble lad.

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The second waiting-maid. She is a very pretty girl and has attracted admirers.

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The greengrocer who brings vegetables round. He has a wooden leg.

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The manageress of Westaway's agency. She is sharp and businesslike.

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A child of six years old. He is small for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. He is utterly spoiled and ill-natured, with savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. He enjoys giving pain to weaker creatures.

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A small bearded man in a grey suit. He is a seaman, persevering and kind-spoken. He is the fiancé of Miss Alice Rucastle.

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The daughter of Jephro Rucastle by his first wife. She is said to have gone to Philadelphia, but is actually imprisoned. She is quiet and patient. Her hair was cut off during an illness.

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A man with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point pupils, all huddled in a chair. He is a wreck and ruin of a noble man. He is addicted to opium.

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Isa Whitney's wife. She is a young and timid woman, clad in some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil.

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A little blonde woman, clad in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She has eager eyes and parted lips.

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A sallow Malay attendant at the opium den. He is a rascally Lascar who runs the den. He has sworn vengeance upon Holmes.

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A singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very foul-mouthed when angry, and of a most retiring disposition. He is an ex-Confederate colonel. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very heavily.

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John Openshaw's father. He is a very obstinate man. He had a small factory at Coventry.

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The leader of the gang on the Lone Star. He is an American.

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A small man with a head that is even redder than Jabez Wilson's. He is the manager of the Red-headed League office. He is actually William Morris, a solicitor.

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A solicitor who used the room at 7 Pope's Court as a temporary convenience. He is the same person as Duncan Ross.

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An American millionaire from Lebanon, Pennsylvania, who founded the Red-headed League. He was very peculiar in his ways and was himself red-headed.

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A clumsy and careless servant girl of Watson's. She is incorrigible.

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The landlady at Baker Street (mentioned in passing).

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The groom at Hatherley Farm.

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The doctor attending John Turner.

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An old friend of Joseph Openshaw, in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill.

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A man whom Holmes saved in the Tankerville Club scandal.

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The inspector who had charge of the Neville St. Clair case initially.

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The landlord of the Alpha Inn (already listed as Windigate).

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A lady whom Holmes helped with an opal tiara case.

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The maiden aunt of Helen and Julia Stoner, living near Harrow.

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The foreman who carried on the business after Mary Sutherland's father died.

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A friend of Lord St. Simon, who recommended Holmes.

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The mother of Lord St. Simon.

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The younger brother of the bridegroom.

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The sister of the bridegroom.

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A guest at the wedding.

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The father of Hatty Doran, a California millionaire. He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope.

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The partner in the banking firm of Holder & Stevenson.

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A giant mastiff, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. He is kept at the Copper Beeches.

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A hideous and distorted child-like creature that darted out from a clump of laurel bushes at Stoke Moran.

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A cheetah kept by Dr. Roylott, which wanders freely over the grounds.

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A loathsome serpent with a squat diamond-shaped head and puffed neck. It is a swamp adder, the deadliest snake in India.