“Do you not want to know who has taken it?” cried his wife impatiently.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
It is dangerous.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
The thick-iron ferrule is worn down, so it is evident that he has done a great amount of walking with it.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
“But it is,” returned she; “for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
We went along the road all night in the dark and the adjutant kept riding up alongside my kitchen and saying, “You must put it out.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
“Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a “Penang lawyer.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
It was funny going along that road.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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
It will be observed.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
“To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.,” was engraved upon it, with the date “1884.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
Because this stick, though originally a very handsome one has been so knocked about that I can hardly imagine a town practitioner carrying it.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
Let me hear you reconstruct the man by an examination of it.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
“Well, Watson, what do you make of it?”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
“You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— that one —used as subject or direct object or indirect object of a verb or object of a preposition usually in reference to a lifeless thing
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Macmillan
— referring to something that has been mentioned
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Other Word Forms
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it’ll
it’s
Usage
54 uses of ‘it’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
1535 uses of ‘it’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
606 uses of ‘it’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1010 uses of ‘it’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle