“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
Watson here knows more about my methods than you do, but I fear that even he has not quite grasped the significance of this sentence.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
He had never said as much before, and I must admit that his words gave me keen pleasure, for I had often been piqued by his indifference to my admiration and to the attempts which I had made to give publicity to his methods.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
You know my methods.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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Merriam-Webster
— a procedure or process for attaining an object
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Macmillan
— a way of doing something, especially a planned or established way
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4 uses of ‘methods’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle