“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
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
I think also that the probability is in favour of his being a country practitioner who does a great deal of his visiting on foot.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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
“My dear Mr. Bennet,” said his lady to him one day, “have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“But it is,” returned she; “for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“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
And then again, there is the ‘friends of the C.C.H.’
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— present tense third-person singular of BE
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Macmillan
— 3rd person singular of the present tense of be
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Usage
8 uses of ‘is’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
858 uses of ‘is’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
105 uses of ‘is’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
624 uses of ‘is’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle