The presence of the gypsies, and the use of the word ‘band,’ which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of by the light of her match, were_______________________ to put me upon an entirely wrong scent.

You are at liberty to _________ whatever expenses I may be put to, at a time which suits you best.

It is evident, therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have had a mere___________________________, while even one of them would cripple him to a very serious extent.

As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and afterwards returned to England a ______________________ and disappointed man.

“But I have heard that the crocuses promise well,” continued my companion ___________________________.

He seems a very _________________________ person.

In a fit of anger, however, caused by some robberies which had been ______________________________ in the house, he beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital sentence

“I think that there was probably some more ______________________ cause.

She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were dreadfully __________________.

On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none ________________________________;

In the last century, however, four successive heirs were of a _______________________ and wasteful disposition, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the days of the Regency

We had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he roused himself from his _______________________.

You may advise me how to walk amid the dangers which _________________ me

But I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the ___________________ wickedness of the human heart.

To me at least there was a strange contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this ____________________ quest upon which we were engaged.