Of in a sentence

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

I certainly have had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I think also that the probability is in favour of his being a country practitioner who does a great deal of his visiting on foot.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Since we have been so unfortunate as to miss him and have no notion of his errand, this accidental souvenir becomes of importance.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Let me hear you reconstruct the man by an examination of it.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

“Well, Watson, what do you make of it?”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“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

“I have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated coffee-pot in front of me,” said he.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

“I think,” said I, following as far as I could the methods of my companion, “that Dr. Mortimer is a successful, elderly medical man, well-esteemed since those who know him give him this mark of their appreciation.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

But, tell me, Watson, what do you make of our visitor’s stick?
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

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

“To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.,” was engraved upon it, with the date “1884.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

And then again, there is the ‘friends of the C.C.H.’
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

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

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

The thick-iron ferrule is worn down, so it is evident that he has done a great amount of walking with it.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a “Penang lawyer.”
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

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Usage

1119 uses of ‘of’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1593 uses of ‘of’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle

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