It is my experience that it is only an amiable man in this world who receives testimonials, only an unambitious one who abandons a London career for the country, and only an absent-minded one who leaves his stick and not his visiting-card after waiting an hour in your room.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— invited to join or attend an institution (such as a university) for a limited time
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Collins
— in a place for a short time in order to do something
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Other Word Forms
visit
visited
visits
Usage
2 uses of ‘visiting’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle