Holmes has been known to charge clients for his expenses, and to claim any reward that might be offered for the problem's solution: he says in " The Adventure of the Speckled Band " that Miss Stoner may pay any expenses he may be put to, and requests that the bank in " The Red-Headed League " remunerate him for the money he spent solving the case.

Although Holmes appears to show initial interest in some female clients ( in particular, Violet Hunter in " The Adventure of the Copper Beeches "), Watson says he inevitably " manifested no further interest in the client when once she had ceased to be the centre of one of his problems ".

When Galovitch falsely accuses Prewitt of insubordination, Holmes is about to punish Prewitt again until the man in charge of the detail says that it was Galovitch, not Prewitt, who was spoiling for the fight.

He has full respect for Holmes's intellect and says that it has been an intellectual treat to grapple with him but is also completely willing to kill Holmes should he oppose him any further, showing a ruthless side.

" The Final Problem " was intended to be exactly what its title says ; Doyle sought to sweeten the pill by letting Holmes go in a blaze of glory, having rid the world of a criminal so powerful and dangerous any further task would be trivial in comparison ( as Holmes says in the story itself ).

In The Valley of Fear ( written after the preceding two stories, but set earlier ), Holmes says of Professor Moriarty: " He is unmarried.

" In the feature-length episode The Eligible Bachelor ( an adaptation of " The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor "), Holmes describes Moriarty as " a giant of evil " and says, " Moriarty combined science with evil.

While Conan Doyle's stories leave unclear what Mycroft Holmes ' exact position is in the British government, Sherlock Holmes says that " Occasionally he is the British government [...] the most indispensable man in the country.

The Narnia book The Magician's Nephew in its second paragraph says " In those days Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.

Conan Doyle sought to sweeten the pill by letting Holmes go in a blaze of glory, having rid the world of a criminal so powerful and dangerous that any further task would be trivial in comparison ( Holmes says as much in the story ).

The Letter that Holmes leave to Watson says:

Holmes says that initially, he travelled to Florence.

* The Tankerville Club which Colonel Moran is a member of is also mentioned in the short story " The Five Orange Pips " in which John Openshaw says that Holmes saved club member Major Prendergast from public scandal.

Series co-creator David Hoberman says that he based Monk partly on himself, and also on other fictional detectives, such as Lt. Columbo and Sherlock Holmes.

Holmes even says that his brother sometimes is the British Government.

Holmes asks Alice if he could meet her father, but she says his health worsened after the death of Charles, whom he had known since they were in Victoria.

It also says C. P. R. on the second page, which Holmes reckons stands for Canadian Pacific Railway.

In Chandler's The Big Sleep Marlowe says he's " not Sherlock Holmes or Philo Vance " and explains that his method owes more to judgement of character than finding clues the police have missed.

Holmes says that he has already deduced the solution to the mystery, and this test of his theory turns out to be successful.

In An Autobiography Christie admits, " I was still writing in the Sherlock Holmes tradition – eccentric detective, stooge assistant, with a Lestrade-type Scotland Yard detective, Inspector Japp ".

Col. Eugene Holmes, an Army officer who was involved in Clinton's case, issued a notarized statement during the 1992 presidential campaign: " I was informed by the draft board that it was of interest to Senator Fullbright's office that Bill Clinton, a Rhodes Scholar, should be admitted to the ROTC program ...

Chuck Holmes, foreign editor for NPR Digitial, said, “ I ’ m surprised and displeased, and it makes me wonder what other information is out-of-date or incorrect in the CIA World Factbook .”

Holmes himself references Watson's moderation in " The Adventure of the Devil's Foot ", saying, " I think, Watson, that I shall resume that course of tobacco-poisoning which you have so often and so justly condemned ".

Although he initially needed Watson to share the rent of his comfortable residence at 221B Baker Street, Watson reveals in " The Adventure of the Dying Detective ", when Holmes was living alone, that " I have no doubt that the house might have been purchased at the price which Holmes paid for his rooms ," suggesting he had developed a good income from his practice, although it is seldom revealed exactly how much he charges for his services.

In " The Adventure of the Priory School ", Holmes rubs his hands with glee when the Duke of Holdernesse notes the 6, 000 pound sterling sum, which surprises even Watson, and then pats the cheque, saying, " I am a poor man ", an incident that could be dismissed as representative of Holmes's tendency toward sarcastic humour.

Holmes states, " I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind "; in fact, he finds " the motives of women ... so inscrutable .... How can you build on such quicksand?

Again in The Sign of the Four, Watson quotes Holmes as saying, " I would not tell them too much.

At the end of the tale a sobered Holmes tells Watson, " If it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper ' Norbury ' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you ".

Also, some UPN stations aired a block of cartoon programming from DIC Entertainment ( such as Trollz and Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century ) which was designed to meet the minimal three hours of E / I programming required by the FCC, and usually airs either six days a week for a half-hour each day, or in three hour-long blocks throughout the week.

The clear and present danger test was established by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in the unanimous opinion for the case Schenck v. United States, concerning the ability of the government to regulate speech against the draft during World War I:

He appeared in such plays as Vincent, Fiddler on the Roof, The Man in the Glass Booth, Oliver !, Six Rms Riv Vu, Full Circle, Camelot, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The King and I, Caligula, The Four Poster, Twelfth Night, Sherlock Holmes, Equus and My Fair Lady.

Green and Brown Holmes from Robert Elliott Burns's autobiography, I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

The name came up in conversation with the novelist John Clellon Holmes who published an early Beat Generation novel, Go ( 1952 ), along with a manifesto in The New York Times Magazine: " This Is the Beat Generation " In 1954, Nolan Miller published his third novel, Why I Am So Beat ( Putnam ), detailing the weekend parties of four students.

The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late Forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way — a vision gleaned from the way we had heard the word " beat " spoken on street corners on Times Square and in the Village, in other cities in the downtown city night of postwar America — beat, meaning down and out but full of intense conviction.

Holmes ' long-time friend and industry associate, Bill Amerson, said that " I saw John measure himself several times, it was 13 and a half inches " ( 34. 3 cm ).

* Holmes ' penis was so big that he had to stop wearing underwear because " I was getting erections and snapping the elastic waist band 4 or 5 times a month.

As I said, Batman was a combination of Douglas Fairbanks and Sherlock Holmes.

But I was holding my own sparring those guys ," Holmes said.

Holmes later said that Cooney " hit me so damned hard, I felt it-boom-in my bones .|

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

It was in order to avoid the stuffy routine of middle class life that Holmes became a detective in the first place.

What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.

These were educated men, who, as Mr. Justice Holmes was fond of saying, formed their inductions out of experience under the burden of responsibility.

It was Pete Holmes, the cabdriver.

They graduated together from Atlanta's Turner High School, where Valedictorian Holmes was first in the class and Charlayne third.

But Holmes was rejected again `` on the basis of his record and interview ''.

The evidence in court was testimony about the interview, which for Holmes lasted an hour, although at least one white student at Georgia got through this ritual by a simple phone conversation.

Holmes was asked if he had ever visited a house of prostitution, or a `` beatnik parlor or teahouse ''.

During his raid on Washington, D. C. in 1864, Lincoln was watching the combat from an exposed position ; Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes shouted at him, " Get down, you damn fool, before you get shot!

He repeated his performance of Billy the pageboy for two subsequent tours, and was so successful that he was called to London to play the role alongside William Gillette, the original Holmes.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in his famous article, " The Path of the Law ", commented, " It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV.

While he was still on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and before being named to the U. S. Supreme Court, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. published a short volume called The Common Law, which remains a classic in the field.

The British geologist Arthur Holmes championed the theory of continental drift at a time when it was deeply unfashionable.

Although much of the attention focused on the power-hitting lineup, much of the club's success was due to a strong bullpen, as relievers Darren Holmes, Curt Leskanic, Steve Reed, and Bruce Ruffin all posted earned-run averages below 3. 40.

Although Sherlock Holmes is not the original fiction detective ( he was influenced by Poe's Dupin and Gaboriau's Lecoq ), his name has become a byword for the part.

Conan Doyle stated that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing large conclusions from the smallest observations.

) This plot point was also used in a Sherlock Holmes story based on the Basil Rathbone era, where a friend of Dr. Watson's is a baronet who is due to receive his inheritance on the New Year's Day of the year where his twenty-first birthday will be celebrated, only for the law to deprive him of the money as he was born on February 29 ; with the 84-year-old Baronet distraught at the news that 1900 is not a leap year, Holmes helps the Baronet fake his death long enough for his grandson-who is the appropriate age to receive the inheritance-to establish his claim and receive the money himself.