Believe in a sentence

When he went to Devonshire his plans were, I believe, exceedingly hazy, but that he meant mischief from the first is evident from the way in which he took his wife with him in the character of his sister.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I do not believe in such nonsense.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Stapleton may fall in with such a superstition, and Mortimer also, but if I have one quality upon earth it is common sense, and nothing will persuade me to believe in such a thing.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Sir Henry was much interested and asked Stapleton more than once whether he did really believe in the possibility of the interference of the supernatural in the affairs of men.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

You don’t believe it, do you, Watson?
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

And you, a trained man of science, believe it to be supernatural?
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

For a moment or two I sat breathless, hardly able to believe my ears.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

And I would have you believe, my sons, that the same Justice which punishes sin may also most graciously forgive it, and that no ban is so heavy but that by prayer and repentance it may be removed.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

You don’t believe such nonsense as that?
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

There is strong reason now to believe that he has got right away, which is a considerable relief to the lonely householders of this district.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I believe that he would do exactly what you now suggest,” said I.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

No signs of violence were to be discovered upon Sir Charles’s person, and though the doctor’s evidence pointed to an almost incredible facial distortion—so great that Dr. Mortimer refused at first to believe that it was indeed his friend and patient who lay before him—it was explained that that is a symptom which is not unusual in cases of dyspnœa and death from cardiac exhaustion.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

We believe there has been a change from a town hospital to a country practice.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

There is our friend Dr. Mortimer, whom I believe to be entirely honest, and there is his wife, of whom we know nothing.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I believe you have eyes in the back of your head.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

“I entirely believe you, madam,” said Sherlock Holmes.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I do not know what to believe.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Let him think that Selden’s death was as Stapleton would have us believe.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Surely the explanation of all this could not be as innocent as she would have me believe.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

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19 uses of ‘believe’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle

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