Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.
There is nothing like first-hand evidence.
The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.
The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.
I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson
There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.
Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.