I would suggest, for example, that a presentation to a doctor is more likely to come from a hospital than from a hunt, and that when the initials ‘C.C.’ are placed before that hospital the words ‘Charing Cross’ very naturally suggest themselves.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
I said it in London, Watson, and I say it again now, that never yet have we helped to hunt down a more dangerous man than he who is lying yonder”—he swept his long arm towards the huge mottled expanse of green-splotched bog which stretched away until it merged into the russet slopes of the moor.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
He thinks that it was unfair on our part to hunt his brother-in-law down when he, of his own free will, had told us the secret.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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
“No mention of that local hunt, Watson,” said Holmes with a mischievous smile, “but a country doctor, as you very astutely observed.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
You saw me, perhaps, on the night of the convict hunt, when I was so imprudent as to allow the moon to rise behind me?
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
If I could get his knowledge it might save me a long and weary hunt.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
They had gone a mile or two when they passed one of the night shepherds upon the moorlands, and they cried to him to know if he had seen the hunt.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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Merriam-Webster
— to pursue for food or in sport
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Macmillan
— to kill animals for food or for their skin or other parts, or for sport
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Other Word Forms
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9 uses of ‘hunt’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle