“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure!
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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
It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry—dignified, solid, and reassuring.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
The lieutenant kept riding his horse out into the fields and saying to him, “I’m drunk, I tell you, mon vieux.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
“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
“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
“Do you not want to know who has taken it?” cried his wife impatiently.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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
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
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
“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
“You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
We were going to the Champagne.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
The second matador slipped and the bull caught him through the belly and he hung on to the horn with one hand and held the other tight against the place, and the bull rammed him wham against the wall and the horn came out, and he lay in the sand, and then got up like crazy drunk and tried to slug the men carrying him away and yelled for his sword but he fainted.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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
Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— used as a function word to indicate movement or an action or condition suggestive of movement toward a place, person, or thing reached
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Macmillan
— used as part of an infinitive
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1130 uses of ‘to’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1408 uses of ‘to’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle