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* A young Mycroft Holmes is the protagonist of a mystery-adventure " edited " by Michael P. Hodel and Sean M. Wright, Enter the Lion: A Posthumous Memoir of Mycroft Holmes ( published in hardcover by Hawthorn Books in 1979 in the U. S. and by JM Dent & Sons Ltd. in 1980 in London ( ISBN 0-460-04483-4 ) and in paperback by Playboy Press in 1980 ).
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* In the young adult fiction book Death Cloud by Andy Lane, Mycroft Holmes tells 14-year-old Sherlock Holmes about semaphore stations, commenting about his school beforehand, saying " All the Latin a boy can cram into his skull, but nothing of practical use.
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The Adventure of the Red-Headed League, an early Sherlock Holmes short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, centers around a London pawnbroker and his somewhat shifty young clerk.
Holmes acted as stepfather to Rose's young son.
The festival's Blues Stage is always set up in front of the world-famous Blue Front Cafe, which is still operated by proprietor Jimmy " Duck " Holmes who, as a young man, largely learned the local style from Bentonia Blues master Jack Owens.
Holmes ( real name: Herman Mudgett, 1861 – 1896 ) Famous serial killer who is believed to have killed over 200 young women during the Chicago 1893 World's Columbian Exposition is buried in the Holy Cross Cemetery.
* " Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking ", a 2004 BBC TV film directed by Simon Cellan Jones from an original story by Alan Cubitt, features the sleuth, played by Rupert Everett, tracking down a killer of aristocratic young women.
The Baker Street Irregulars are any of several different groups, all named after the original, from various Sherlock Holmes stories in which they are a gang of young street children whom Holmes often employs to aid his cases.
Irene Adler, theretofore " The Woman " of the Holmes canon, was replaced by Alice Faulkner, a young and beautiful lady who was planning to avenge her sister's murder but eventually falls in love with Holmes ; and the pageboy, nameless in the Canon, was given the name Billy by Gillette, a name he carried over into the Basil Rathbone films and has retained ever since.
In 1821, Booth ran off to the United States with Mary Ann Holmes, a flower girl, abandoning his wife and their young son.
Britain hammered New Zealand 53-19, a World Cup record score, with young stand-off half John Holmes collecting 26 points ( 10 goals, 2 tries )-another World Cup record.
As a young man, Holmes loved literature and supported the abolitionist movement that thrived in Boston society during the 1850s.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. as a young man
Although Holmes evidently believed that he was adhering to his own precedent, many later commentators accused Holmes of inconsistency, even of seeking to curry favor with his young admirers.
From a young age, Holmes was small and suffered from asthma, but he was known for his precociousness.
" After being exposed to poets such as John Dryden, Alexander Pope and Oliver Goldsmith, the young Holmes began to compose and recite his own verse.
Although a talented student, the young Holmes was often admonished by his teachers for his talkative nature and habit of reading stories during school hours.
After graduation, Holmes quickly became a fixture in the local medical scene by joining the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Boston Medical Society, and the Boston Society for Medical Improvement — an organization composed of young, Paris-trained doctors.
On learning to draw as a young child: " You ’ re trying to find clues in order to solve a mystery like Sherlock Holmes.
Holmes and Watson are called to a house in Deptford, due to the concerns of a young woman about her safety.
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With all respect to a fine young man, Mr. Roy is not able to provide these necessaries ''.
The cyclist, a sufficiently commonplace young fellow, is not named but identified simply as `` Life '' -- that and a license number, which Piepsam uses in addressing him.
The young William Faulkner in New Orleans in the 1920's impressed the novelist Hamilton Basso as obviously conscious of being a Southerner, and there is no evidence that since then he has ever considered himself any less so.
`` This is no place for a young girl '', he said.
The pessimism of the young is defiant, anxious to confess or even exaggerate its ostensible gloom, and so exuberant as to reveal the fact that it regards its ability to face up to the awful truth as more than enough to compensate for the awfulness of that truth.
If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.
But Krim's complaint is important because not only in New York, but in other cities and in universities throughout this country, young and not, so young men at
The probable answer is that it will do so just as long as Russia can exercise a veto in favor of chaos and until young African nations wake up to the truth that out of false pride they are visiting ruin on Central Africa.
She has studied and observed and she is convinced that her young man is going to be endlessly enchanting.
but I am also a young, able and willing girl who wants to study the Chinese language but is not old enough.
The welfare of citizens, old and young, is the responsibility of the community, not only of that part of it that rides the Aj.
One of the greatest obstacles to the achievement of this goal is the lack of trained men and women with the skill to teach the young and assist in the operation of development projects -- men and women with the capacity to cope with the demands of swiftly evolving economics, and with the dedication to put that capacity to work in the villages, the mountains, the towns and the factories of dozens of struggling nations.
To be fit, one has to start early with young children, and today the only person who really reaches such children is the teacher of dance.
At the same time, however, I availed myself of the services of that great English actor and master of make-up, Sir Gauntley Pratt, to do a `` quickie '' called The Mystery of the Mad Marquess, in which I played a young American girl who inherits a haunted castle on the English moors which is filled with secret passages and sliding panels and, unbeknownst to anyone, is still occupied by an eccentric maniac.
By the middle of the summer, many of the larvae apparently receive such a good diet that it is `` optimal '', and it is then that young queens begin to appear.
Other herpetologists have ascertained that in the northern United States the prairie rattlesnake may not give first birth until it is four or even five years old, and that the young may be born every other year, rather than annually.
Alphonse R. Hoge's measurements of several very young specimens from Brazil suggest that at birth the female is slightly larger than the male.
In I knew you when you were a child, and you were pretty then dominant stress on then implies that the young woman spoken to is still pretty.
It is obviously a young man's poem, written out of books and not out of experience ; ;
When served in a psychological atmosphere that allows young bodies to assimilate the greatest good from what they eat because they are free from tension, a foundation is laid for a high level of health that releases the children from physical handicaps to participate with enjoyment in the work assignments, the athletic programs and the most important phase, the educational opportunities.
The wife is likely to be young, sophisticated, smart as a whip -- often a girl who has sacrificed a promising career for marriage.
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The stories are the diaries of protagonist Claudine, which outline the education and growing up of the young girl, who is aged fifteen at the beginning of the first novel Claudine à l ' école.
Philip Roth titled the second chapter of his novel " The Ghost Writer " Nathan Dedalus, after the novel's young protagonist Nathan Zuckerman.
Rosenberg notes Taji, in " Mardi ", and the protagonist in " Pierre " " think they are saving young " maidens in distress " ( Yillah and Isabel ) out of the purest of reasons but both are also conscious of a lurking sexual motive.
* In A. J. Cronin's novel, A Pocketful of Rye, the protagonist Carroll reads the poem as a young man, forgets it, and suffers from a recurring nightmare that finally leads to his conversion.
A typical wuxia story features a young male protagonist who experiences a tragedy such as losing his loved ones.
The young protagonist, Tony, one of the Jets, falls in love with Maria, the sister of Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks.
* In Roswell That Ends Well, episode 19 of season 3 of the series Futurama, the protagonist Fry returns to the past and accidentally kills his young grandfather in an attempt to protect him from harm.
Other sources include Sylvia Plath's 1963 novel The Bell Jar, in which the protagonist, Esther, reacts with horror to the " perpetual marble calm " of a lobotomized young woman named Valerie.
Director Scorsese initially struggled selling his idea of realizing the film until DiCaprio became interested in playing protagonist Amsterdam Vallon, a young leader of the Irish faction, and thus, Miramax Films got involved with financing the project.
American novelist Thomas Berger created a modern version of the story in his 1994 novel Robert Crews, in which the protagonist is a middle-aged alcoholic who survives a plane crash at a rural lake, and eventually encounters his " Friday ," a young woman fleeing an abusive marriage.
The one character who remains a constant throughout is Alita, the protagonist and title character, a young cyborg with amnesia struggling to uncover her forgotten past through the only thing she remembers from it: by fighting.
In his debut novels Ikaros and Line the young protagonist comes to terms with nonsocialistic members of the Social Democratic welfare state.
The world's most talented children, including the novel's protagonist, Ender Wiggin, are taken at a very young age to a training center known as the Battle School.
This is especially true during adolescence .” Little Women became “ the paradigmatic text for young women of the era and one in which family literary culture is prominently featured .” Adult elements of women ’ s fiction were in Little Women, such as “ a change of heart necessary ” for the female protagonist to evolve in the story.
Homer's young brother's name, Ulysses, is the Roman form of the name Odysseus, the Odyssey's protagonist.
An example of a negative sanction comes from a scene in the Pink Floyd film ' The Wall ,' whereby the young protagonist is ridiculed and verbally abused by a high school teacher for writing poetry in a mathematics class.
Among James's masterpieces are Daisy Miller ( 1879 ); in which the eponymous protagonist, the young and innocent American Daisy Miller, finds her values in conflict with European sophistication ; and The Portrait of a Lady ( 1881 ), in which a young American woman finds that her upbringing has ill prepared her against two scheming American expatriates during her travels in Europe.
The protagonist is Tom, a young chimney sweep, who falls into a river after encountering an upper-class girl named Ellie and being chased out of her house.
The novel's protagonist, Pavel Korchagin, represented the " young hero " of Russian literature: he is dedicated to his political causes, which help him to overcome his tragedies.
* Caroline Meeber, a. k. a. Carrie, a young woman from rural Wisconsin ; the protagonist.
* In James Hilton's novel Goodbye, Mr Chips ( 1934 ), Katherine, the lovely young wife of the shy schoolmaster protagonist Mr Chipping, is said to have been living with an aunt in Ealing following the death of her parents.
The protagonist is a young boy named Ico who was born with horns, which his village considers a bad omen.
The game's protagonist,, is a young boy with a pair of horns on his head — considered a bad omen by his village.
In the horror film The Skeleton Key, the protagonist, Caroline, discovers that the old couple she is looking after are really poor black Voodoo witch doctors who stole the bodies of two young privileged white children in their care using a ritual which allows a soul to swap bodies.
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