What is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man, it is perhaps better to take the knee of the trouser.
Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward.

There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.

She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn, squawking, out of its coop.