“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
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
It will be observed.
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
“My dear Mr. Bennet,” replied his wife, “how can you be so tiresome!
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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
“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure!
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
Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— to equal in meaning : have the same connotation as : SYMBOLIZE
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Macmillan
— used for forming the progressive tenses of verbs, that are used for showing actions that are in progress at a particular point in time
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Usage
16 uses of ‘be’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
1240 uses of ‘be’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
124 uses of ‘be’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
329 uses of ‘be’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle