They wanted to get married, but there was not enough time for the banns, and neither of them had birth certificates.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
No end and no beginning.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
They rushed it, and officers came out alone and worked on it.
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
Two soldiers carried him downstairs and out into the rain.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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
Giotto, Masaccio, and Piero della Francesca he bought reproductions of and carried them wrapped in a copy of Avanti.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Before he went back to the front they went into the Duomo and prayed.
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
The picador twisted the stirrups straight and pulled and hauled up into the saddle.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
It was dim and quiet, and there were other people praying.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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
It was lonely and rainy there, and there was a battalion of arditi quartered in the town.
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
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
“But, my dear, you must indeed go and see Mr. Bingley when he comes into the neighbourhood.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
He had been in many towns, walked much and seen many pictures.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
“But it is,” returned she; “for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
The picador kicked in his spurs, leaned forward and shook his lance at the bull.
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
Some men picked Maera up and started to run with him toward the barriers through the gate out the passage way around under the grand stand to the infirmary.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
When they all stepped back on the scaffolding back of the drop, which was very heavy, built of oak and steel and swung on ball bearings, Sam Cardinella was left sitting there strapped tight, the younger of the two priests kneeling beside the chair.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
He felt warm and sticky from the bleeding.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Then he cursed the bull, flopped the muleta at him, and swung back from the charge his feet firm, the muleta curving and each swing the crowd roaring.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
We went along the road all night in the dark and the adjutant kept riding up alongside my kitchen and saying, “You must put it out.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
The second matador slipped and the bull caught him through the belly and he hung on to the horn with one hand and held the other tight against the place, and the bull rammed him wham against the wall and the horn came out, and he lay in the sand, and then got up like crazy drunk and tried to slug the men carrying him away and yelled for his sword but he fainted.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
The first matador got the horn through his sword hand and the crowd hooted him out.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley may like you the best of the party.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
And then again, there is the ‘friends of the C.C.H.’
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
Maera saw him and then I saw him.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
There were only a few patients, and they all knew about it.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
The crowd shouted all the time and threw pieces of bread down into the ring, then cushions and leather wine bottles, keeping up whistling and yelling.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
They felt as though they were married, but they wanted everyone to knew about it, and to make it so they could not lose it.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
The others went down and took the bottles with them.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
He was a Magyar, a very nice boy and very shy.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
He had to stop and wash his hands.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
We were frightfully put out when we heard the flank had gone, and we had to fall back.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
When they stopped the music for the crouch he hunched down in the street with them all and when they started it again he jumped up and went dancing down the street with them.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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
Yes, Maera said, and who will kill his bulls after he gets a cogida?
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
The old men and women, soaked through, walked along keeping the cattle moving.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Too heavy to lift and you could shoot through it and they would have to climb over it.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— used as a function word to indicate connection or addition especially of items within the same class or type —used to join sentence elements of the same grammatical rank or function
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Macmillan
— used between words, phrases etc in order to connect them together
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Usage
1569 uses of ‘and’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1919 uses of ‘and’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle