In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first?” asked Holmes with some asperity.
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
Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
“Has anything escaped me?” I asked with some self-importance.
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
This family paper was committed to my care by Sir Charles Baskerville, whose sudden and tragic death some three months ago created so much excitement in Devonshire.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— being an unknown, undetermined, or unspecified unit or thing
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Macmillan
— used for referring to an amount of something or to a number of people or things, without saying how much or how many
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Usage
103 uses of ‘some’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
141 uses of ‘some’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle