Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a “Penang lawyer.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
He had been some days in town, before he was able to discover them; but he had something to direct his search, which was more than we had; and the consciousness of this was another reason for his resolving to follow us.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I was able to establish the identity of the man and the woman and knew at last exactly how I stood.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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It was absolutely topping.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
When he started to kill it was all in the same rush.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
He thanked me very much, but his mind was already looking forward to walking over the pass.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
It was an absolutely perfect obstacle.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
She was clipping a rose bush.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
How did you know what I was doing?
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
The whole battery was drunk going along the road in the dark.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Everybody was drunk.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
“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
It was funny going along that road.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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
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
Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
That was when I was a kitchen corporal.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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803 uses of ‘was’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle