We’d jammed an absolutely perfect barricade across the bridge.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
It was an absolutely perfect obstacle.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Of course the great thing in this sort of an affair is not to be shot oneself!
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
The Hungarians were backing their wagon out of an alley.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Ag never got an answer to her letter to Chicago about it.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Let me hear you reconstruct the man by an examination of it.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
Well, I said, after all he’s just an ignorant Mexican savage.
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
The pink wall of the house opposite had fallen out from the roof, and an iron bedstead hung twisted toward the street.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
If it happened right down close in front of you, you could see Villalta snarl at the bull and curse him, and when the bull charged he swung back firmly like an oak when the wind hits it, his legs tight together, the muleta trailing and the sword following the curve behind.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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Merriam-Webster
— A entry 2
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Macmillan
— used instead of ‘a’ when the next word begins with a vowel sound
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Usage
201 uses of ‘an’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle