The barrister who has his case at his fingers’ ends and is able to argue with an expert upon his own subject finds that a week or two of the courts will drive it all out of his head once more.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
In these days of nouveaux riches it is refreshing to find a case where the scion of an old county family which has fallen upon evil days is able to make his own fortune and to bring it back with him to restore the fallen grandeur of his line.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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— If you are able to do something, you have skills or qualities which make it possible for you to do it.
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2 uses of ‘is able to’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle