I in a sentence – Fabulous Word

I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Oh, I am so soused.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

“Has anything escaped me?” I asked with some self-importance.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I believe you have eyes in the back of your head.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Because this stick, though originally a very handsome one has been so knocked about that I can hardly imagine a town practitioner carrying it.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

“I have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated coffee-pot in front of me,” said he.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

He had never said as much before, and I must admit that his words gave me keen pleasure, for I had often been piqued by his indifference to my admiration and to the attempts which I had made to give publicity to his methods.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I should guess that to be the Something Hunt, the local hunt to whose members he has possibly given some surgical assistance, and which has made him a small presentation in return.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

The lieutenant kept riding his horse out into the fields and saying to him, “I’m drunk, I tell you, mon vieux.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

I think also that the probability is in favour of his being a country practitioner who does a great deal of his visiting on foot.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

“I think,” said I, following as far as I could the methods of my companion, “that Dr. Mortimer is a successful, elderly medical man, well-esteemed since those who know him give him this mark of their appreciation.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

That was when I was a kitchen corporal.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

How did you know what I was doing?
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I was proud, too, to think that I had so far mastered his system as to apply it in a way which earned his approval.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

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