“I think,” said I, following as far as I could the methods of my companion, “that Dr. Mortimer is a successful, elderly medical man, well-esteemed since those who know him give him this mark of their appreciation.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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Merriam-Webster
— used in auxiliary function in the past
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Macmillan
— used as the past tense of ‘can’
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can
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201 uses of ‘could’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle