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As I approached the hut, walking as warily as Stapleton would do when with poised net he drew near the settled butterfly, I satisfied myself that the place had indeed been used as a habitation.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Now, the poor lass upstairs was like to have her wits turned at the singing and shouting and terrible oaths which came up to her from below, for they say that the words used by Hugo Baskerville, when he was in wine, were such as might blast the man who said them.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I stayed for the most part at Coombe Tracey, and only used the hut upon the moor when it was necessary to be near the scene of action.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I could well remember the scorn which the theories of the reasoner used then to excite in the practical man.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

No, sir! he has used this hotel for many years, and he is very well known to us.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

His reason for attempting this special line of business was that he had struck up an acquaintance with a consumptive tutor upon the voyage home, and that he had used this man’s ability to make the undertaking a success.
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

“Surely that must be the same Johnson whom I used to know,” said Holmes to the porter.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Among the old houses on the hillside—the stone huts where the old folk used to live.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

It is very probable, therefore, that in the absence of his master it was he who cared for the hound, though he may never have known the purpose for which the beast was used.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

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