Sherlock Holmes, The Strangest Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes was a man who seldom took exercise for exercise's sake. Note that, contrary to the image widespread today, Sherlock Holmes was never smoking a calabash pipe in his adventures.

He had a litter of pipes over the mantelpiece of his bedroom.

He smoked a cherrywood in a disputatious mood.

He smoked occasionally an old briar-root pipe.

Most often, he smoked his old black pipe ( CREE, 9), the old and oily black clay pipe ( IDEN, 205) when in meditative mood ( SOLI, 137).

Holmes smoked cigars, cigarettes, and of course, pipes. In the country, he had a tweed suit and cloth cap, he looked like any other tourist ( HOUN, 2772), or a long grey travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap ( BOSC, 19), or his ear-flapped travelling-cap ( SILV, 17). In private, he wear a mouse-coloured dressing-gown ( EMPT, 399), a purple one ( BLUE, 1) and sometimes a blue one ( TWIS, 400). He usually wear a tweed suit or frock-coat, and occasionally an ulster ( STUD, 965). He affected a certain quiet primness of dress ( MUSG, 1). He had that cat-like love of personal cleanliness ( HOUN, 2772).

He had a quick, high ( CARD, 186), somewhat strident voice ( STOC, 7).

( MAZA, 201) particularly sharp and piercing ( STUD, 197), with a far-away, introspective look when he was exerting his full powers.

He had thin ( EMPT, 197) and firm ( 3GAR, 440) lips.

He had heavy tufted brows ( BRUC, 304), heavy, dark brows ( LADY, 517), bushy eyebrows.

He had a dolichocephalic skull with well-marked supra-orbital development.

( REDC, 2), a long, thin fore-finger ( YELL, 45)

( EMPT, 97), a long, thin, nervous arm ( ILLU, 6)

He was a tall, thin man ( TWIS, 54), gaunt man of sixty.

He had a tall, austere figure ( HOUN, 1188), a tall lean figure.

He had a tall, gaunt figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap.

He measured 6 feet ( 3STU, 470) or over 6 feet but he was so lean that he seemed even taller.

Sherlock Holmes, The Strangest Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle