I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
I mention this small episode because it assumes some importance in view of the tragedy which followed, but I was convinced at the time that the matter was entirely trivial and that his excitement had no justification.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
From my small medical shelf I took down the Medical Directory and turned up the name.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
He had left his own marks all over that small patch of gravel.
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
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— having comparatively little size or slight dimensions
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Macmillan
— in a way that produces something that is not large
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Other Word Forms
smaller
smallest
Usage
28 uses of ‘small’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle