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When you are once out upon its bosom you have left all traces of modern England behind you, but, on the other hand, you are conscious everywhere of the homes and the work of the prehistoric people.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

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

The first impression left by Mrs. Lyons was one of extreme beauty.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

And he left five years ago—the date is on the stick.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

In the distant hollow on the left, half hidden by the mist, the two thin towers of Baskerville Hall rose above the trees.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

He stood upon a chair, and, holding up the light in his left hand, he curved his right arm over the broad hat and round the long ringlets.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

We left her standing upon the thin peninsula of firm, peaty soil which tapered out into the widespread bog.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Barrymore it might possibly have been, but we had left him behind us, and I am certain that he could not have followed us.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Oh Holmes, I shall never forgive myself for having left him to his fate.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Halfway down is the moor-gate, where the old gentleman left his cigar-ash.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

It chanced that some little time later Hugo left his guests to carry food and drink—with other worse things, perchance—to his captive, and so found the cage empty and the bird escaped.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

He had left his own marks all over that small patch of gravel.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Your mission today has justified itself, and yet I could almost wish that you had not left his side.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

When our friends left I at once followed them in the hopes of marking down their invisible attendant.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

After you left I sent down to Stamford’s for the Ordnance map of this portion of the moor, and my spirit has hovered over it all day.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

“I’ve been over a good part of the world since I left it, Dr. Watson,” said he; “but I have never seen a place to compare with it.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I looked back at the platform when we had left it far behind and saw the tall, austere figure of Holmes standing motionless and gazing after us.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I was not sure whether I had left it here or in the Shipping Office.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

She kept coming back to it that this was a place of danger, and that she would never be happy until I had left it.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Meanwhile we left Lestrade in possession of the house while Holmes and I went back with the baronet to Baskerville Hall.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

When he left me.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

There was no light save in the dining-room, but Holmes caught up the lamp and left no corner of the house unexplored.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

To right and left of the turrets were more modern wings of black granite.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I’ve not heard of him since I left out food for him last, and that was three days ago.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I left Sir Henry behind, therefore, not without some prickings of conscience, and drove off upon my new quest.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

We had left the fertile country behind and beneath us.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I married, and so left the hospital, and with it all hopes of a consulting practice.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

The servants had left the kitchen.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

It was then that it left the print which was actually observed by Dr. Mortimer.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

As I watched them Stapleton rose and left the room, while Sir Henry filled his glass again and leaned back in his chair, puffing at his cigar.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Baskerville sat for a long time, his eyes fixed upon it, and I read upon his eager face how much it meant to him, this first sight of that strange spot where the men of his blood had held sway so long and left their mark so deep.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Prehistoric man lived thickly on the moor, and as no one in particular has lived there since, we find all his little arrangements exactly as he left them.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

The light beneath him was reflected in his small, cunning eyes which peered fiercely to right and left through the darkness like a crafty and savage animal who has heard the steps of the hunters.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

“I hope,” said Dr. Mortimer, “that you do not look with suspicious eyes upon everyone who received a legacy from Sir Charles, for I also had a thousand pounds left to me.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I do not know that anything essential has been left unexplained.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

You have, no doubt, described the sequence of events correctly, but there is one point which you have left unexplained.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

The fresh beauty of the following morning did something to efface from our minds the grim and grey impression which had been left upon both of us by our first experience of Baskerville Hall.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

These rooms appeared to be much more modern than the central part of the house, and the bright paper and numerous candles did something to remove the sombre impression which our arrival had left upon my mind.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

When the butler had left us Sir Henry turned to me.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

He told us of similar cases, where families had suffered from some evil influence, and he left us with the impression that he shared the popular view upon the matter.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

The hound was called off and hurried away to its lair in the Grimpen Mire, and a mystery was left which puzzled the authorities, alarmed the countryside, and finally brought the case within the scope of our observation.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Both of the women concerned in the case, Mrs. Stapleton and Mrs. Laura Lyons, were left with a strong suspicion against Stapleton.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

There it was again upon our left!
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

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43 uses of ‘left’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle

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