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
“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“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
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
Mr. Bennet replied that he had not.
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
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
He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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
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
“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
“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
It was funny going along that road.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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
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
That was when I was a kitchen corporal.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— the person, thing, or idea indicated, mentioned, or understood from the situation
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Macmillan
— used when you are referring to someone or something that has already been mentioned
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Other Word Forms
those
Usage
13 uses of ‘that’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
1580 uses of ‘that’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
642 uses of ‘that’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1144 uses of ‘that’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle