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
And I’ve closed the wood where the Fernworthy folk used to picnic.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
To this post a figure was tied, so swathed and muffled in the sheets which had been used to secure it that one could not for the moment tell whether it was that of a man or a woman.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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— used for saying what was true or what happened regularly in the past, especially when you want to emphasize that this is not true or does not happen now
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