It’s a bad place, the great Grimpen Mire.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
There seemed to be no alternative but to catch him red-handed, and to do so we had to use Sir Henry, alone and apparently unprotected, as a bait.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
Did I think that because I was a baronet I could do what I liked?
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
He has been excavating a barrow at Long Down and has got a prehistoric skull which fills him with great joy.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
It was lonely and rainy there, and there was a battalion of arditi quartered in the town.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
It was a beautiful country he said.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
A big old wrought iron grating from the front of a house.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
The other lay flat on his cot with a blanket wrapped around his head.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
The horse’s entrails hung down in a blue bunch and swung backward and forward as he began to canter, the monos whacking him on the back of his legs with the rods.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
He went to America on a boat from Genoa.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
She loved him as always, but she realized now it was only a boy and girl love.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
He was very short with a brown face and quite drunk and he said after all it has happened before like that.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Fifteen came in a bunch and he sorted them by the dates and read them all straight through.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
He sat down in the sand and puked and they held a cape over him while the crowd hollered and threw things down into the bull ring.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“How about a chair, Will?” asked one of the guards, “Better get one,” said a man in a derby hat.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
At two o’clock in the morning two Hungarians got into a cigar store at Fifteenth Street and Grand Avenue.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
“Really, Watson, you excel yourself,” said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
Then everything commenced to run faster and faster as when they speed up a cinematograph film.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Yes, Maera said, and who will kill his bulls after he gets a cogida?
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Giotto, Masaccio, and Piero della Francesca he bought reproductions of and carried them wrapped in a copy of Avanti.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
They laid Maera down on a cot and one of the men went out for the doctor.
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 said, Don’t be a damn fool Luis.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Rinaldi was a disappointing audience.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
They came out onto the gallows through a door in the wall.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
There were only a few patients, and they all knew about it.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a “Penang lawyer.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
What a fine thing for our girls!
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Drevitts and Boyle drove up from the Fifteenth Street police station in a Ford.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
It was a frightfully hot day.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
We were in a garden at Mons.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
He tried five times and the crowd was quiet because it was a good bull and it looked like him or the bull and then he finally made it.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
She hoped he would have a great career, and believed in him absolutely.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
The thick-iron ferrule is worn down, so it is evident that he has done a great amount of walking with it.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
There’s liable to be a hell of a lot of trouble.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Ag went back to Torre di Mosta to open a hospital.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Only to get a job and be married.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
When they operated on him she prepared him for the operating table, and they had a joke about friend or enema.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
The crowd came over the barrera and around the torero and two men grabbed him and held him and some one cut off his pigtail and was waving it and a kid grabbed it and ran away with it.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
That was when I was a kitchen corporal.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Living in the muddy, rainy town in the winter the major of the battalion made love to Ag, and she had never known Italians before, and finally wrote a letter to the States that theirs had been only a boy and girl affair.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
He talked about it a little.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
We talked for a long time.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
He was a Magyar, a very nice boy and very shy.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Usage
69 uses of ‘a’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
1948 uses of ‘a’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
1412 uses of ‘a’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1306 uses of ‘a’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle