Wops, said Boyle, I can tell wops a mile off.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
He drew out the sword from the folds of the muleta and sighted with the same movement and called to the bull, Toro! Toro! and the bull charged and Villalta charged and just for a moment they became one.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
They tried to hold him up against the wall but he sat down in a puddle of water.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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
She was clipping a rose bush.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
You and me we’ve made a separate peace.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
A short time after he contracted gonorrhea from a sales girl from The Fair riding in a taxicab through Lincoln Park.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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
In 1919 he was travelling on the railroads in Italy carrying a square of oilcloth from the headquarters of the party written in indelible pencil and saying here was a comrade who had suffered very much under the whites in Budapest and requesting comrades to aid him in any way.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry—dignified, solid, and reassuring.
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
We sat down at a table under a big tree and the king ordered whiskey and soda.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
He used this instead of a ticket.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Plastiras is a very good man I believe, he said, but frightfully difficult.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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 have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated coffee-pot in front of me,” said he.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
After a while it got dark and the searchlights came out.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
There was a woman having a kid with a young girl holding a blanket over her and crying.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
“Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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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