“Can you, then, tell me the name of any woman whose initials are L. L.?”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
“There are a few gipsies and labouring folk for whom I can’t answer, but among the farmers or gentry there is no one whose initials are those. Wait a bit though,” he added after a pause.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
I should guess that to be the Something Hunt, the local hunt to whose members he has possibly given some surgical assistance, and which has made him a small presentation in return.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
The recent sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville, whose name has been mentioned as the probable Liberal candidate for Mid-Devon at the next election, has cast a gloom over the county.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
There was an old manservant at Merripit House, whose name was Anthony.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
His plans were suddenly brought to a head by his knowledge that Sir Charles was about to leave the Hall on the advice of Dr. Mortimer, with whose opinion he himself pretended to coincide.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
He did, as a matter of fact, marry, and had one child, this fellow, whose real name is the same as his father’s.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
That is the whole truth, as I am an honest Christian woman and you will see that if there is blame in the matter it does not lie with my husband but with me, for whose sake he has done all that he has.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
This family paper was committed to my care by Sir Charles Baskerville, whose sudden and tragic death some three months ago created so much excitement in Devonshire.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— of or relating to whom or which especially as possessor or possessors
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Macmillan
— used for showing that someone or something belongs to or is connected with the person or thing that you have just mentioned
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Usage
9 uses of ‘whose’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle