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Holmes (hōmz, hōlmz)

  1. Holmes, John Haynes (hānz) 1879-1964; U.S. clergyman & reformer

  2. Holmes, Oliver Wendell (wen′dəl) 1809-94; U.S. writer & physician

  3. wen′d'l

    Holmes, Oliver Wendell 1841-1935; associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1902-32): son of the writer

Holmes Quotes

'I am inclined to thinkö'said I. 'I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked, impatiently.

—Doyle, SirArthur Conan

John Clellon Holmes†and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent Existentialism and I said,'You know, this is really a beat generation'and he leapt up and said,'That's it, that's right!'

—Kerouac,Jack (John)

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.

—Doyle, SirArthur Conan

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