One in a sentence

“My dear Mr. Bennet,” said his lady to him one day, “have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Because this stick, though originally a very handsome one has been so knocked about that I can hardly imagine a town practitioner carrying it.
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

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Dictionary

Merriam-Webster
— being a single unit or thing
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Macmillan
— the number 1
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Usage

247 uses of ‘one’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle