Head in a sentence

Though young, his long back was already bowed, and he walked with a forward thrust of his head and a general air of peering benevolence.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

But as to my uncle’s death—well, it all seems boiling up in my head, and I can’t get it clear yet.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

“It was imprudent, all the same,” said Holmes, shaking his head and looking very grave.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

He stood with his legs a little separated, his arms folded, his head bowed, as if he were brooding over that enormous wilderness of peat and granite which lay before him.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I stooped, panting, and pressed my pistol to the dreadful, shimmering head, but it was useless to press the trigger.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

His plans were suddenly brought to a head by his knowledge that Sir Charles was about to leave the Hall on the advice of Dr. Mortimer, with whose opinion he himself pretended to coincide.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

All this, Dr. Watson, has been brought upon your head by your expression as you surveyed the moor out of our window.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

It was a prostrate man face downward upon the ground, the head doubled under him at a horrible angle, the shoulders rounded and the body hunched together as if in the act of throwing a somersault.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

As her beautiful head fell upon her chest I saw the clear red weal of a whiplash across her neck.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I saw his head for quite a long time craning out of the bog-hole, but it sucked him down at last.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

The baronet stood for a minute looking after them, and then he walked slowly back the way that he had come, his head hanging, the very picture of dejection.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

They were walking slowly along in deep conversation, and I saw her making quick little movements of her hands as if she were very earnest in what she was saying, while he listened intently, and once or twice shook his head in strong dissent.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

He stopped suddenly and stared fixedly up over my head into the air.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

These, though known for their valour and their breed, were whimpering in a cluster at the head of a deep dip or goyal, as we call it, upon the moor, some slinking away and some, with starting hackles and staring eyes, gazing down the narrow valley before them.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

A glance at our friend here reveals the rounded head of the Celt, which carries inside it the Celtic enthusiasm and power of attachment.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I whisked round and had just time to catch a glimpse of something which I took to be a large black calf passing at the head of the drive.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Holmes stopped him at the head of the stair.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

“I got a message from the head office that a gent at this address had been inquiring for No. 2704,” said he.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

The barrister who has his case at his fingers’ ends and is able to argue with an expert upon his own subject finds that a week or two of the courts will drive it all out of his head once more.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Holmes had sprung to his feet, and I saw his dark, athletic outline at the door of the hut, his shoulders stooping, his head thrust forward, his face peering into the darkness.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

He stooped his head to hers, and she raised one hand as if in protest.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Poor Sir Charles’s head was of a very rare type, half Gaelic, half Ivernian in its characteristics.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

At the head was written: “Baskerville Hall,” and below in large, scrawling figures: “1742.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

“Dear, dear, that’s bad!” said Holmes, shaking his head.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I believe you have eyes in the back of your head.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I don’t think I’ll get that cry out of my head.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I have always felt that there was something singular and questionable in this man’s character, but the adventure of last night brings all my suspicions to a head.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I have no doubt that anxiety and exposure have driven him off his head.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

The cabman scratched his head.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Then the revellers rode close together, for a great fear was on them, but they still followed over the moor, though each, had he been alone, would have been right glad to have turned his horse’s head.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Your blood would be upon my head.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

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32 uses of ‘head’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle

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