“How about a chair, Will?” asked one of the guards, “Better get one,” said a man in a derby hat.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Oh, you know the stories that the peasants tell about a phantom hound, and so on.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
If I hadn’t sworn not to go about alone I might have had a more lively evening, for I had a message from Stapleton asking me over there.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
She was glad to meet me, but when she did it was not love that she would talk about, and she wouldn’t have let me talk about it either if she could have stopped it.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
He went under the anæsthetic holding tight on to himself so that he would not blab about anything during the silly, talky time.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
As it is, I have been able to get about as I could not possibly have done had I been living in the Hall, and I remain an unknown factor in the business, ready to throw in all my weight at a critical moment.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
After the conversation which I have quoted about Barrymore, Sir Henry put on his hat and prepared to go out.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
The walk in the centre is about eight feet across.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
No; he lay about fifty yards from it.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
About four feet high.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
He had been like that since about four o’clock in the morning.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
When they operated on him she prepared him for the operating table, and they had a joke about friend or enema.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
He quickened his pace until we had decreased the distance which divided us by about half.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
On the train from Padova to Milan they quarrelled about her not being willing to come home at once.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
There is something tropical and exotic about her which forms a singular contrast to her cool and unemotional brother.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
The farmers about here don’t like it, sir, and that’s a fact.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
The truth is that the gentleman told me that he was a detective and that I was to say nothing about him to anyone.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
But how about his food?
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
He talked about it a little.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
I will not speak about it just now, but it should make my next report interesting reading.
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
I had no opportunity to tell the baronet what I had learned about Mrs. Lyons upon the evening before, for Dr. Mortimer remained with him at cards until it was very late.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
At breakfast, however, I informed him about my discovery and asked him whether he would care to accompany me to Coombe Tracey.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
“I knew that Barrymore walked about nights, and I had a mind to speak to him about it,” said he.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
It’s about poor Sir Charles’s death.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
He felt sick about saying good-bye like that.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
About sending you.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
He is said to have about seven lawsuits upon his hands at present, which will probably swallow up the remainder of his fortune and so draw his sting and leave him harmless for the future.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
But I expect if we could lay our hands upon that lady we should know more about Sir Charles’s death
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
Yes, there is a strip of grass about six feet broad on either side.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
Well, well, Mr. Holmes, you’ll excuse my troubling you about such a trifle—
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
How about that hour of darkness in which the power of evil is exalted?
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
We were fifty kilometers from the front but the adjutant worried about the fire in my kitchen.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
It was about the late Sir Charles Baskerville that I have come here to see you.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
I don’t pretend to know much about these things, and I’d be a better judge of a horse or a steer than of a picture.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
The latter was a small, alert, dark-eyed man about thirty years of age, very sturdily built, with thick black eyebrows and a strong, pugnacious face.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
Go to your room, you two, and we shall talk further about this matter in the morning.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
I had raised my hat and was about to make some explanatory remark when her own words turned all my thoughts into a new channel.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
Last night, about two in the morning, I was aroused by a stealthy step passing my room.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
“It seems to show that someone knows more than we do about what goes on upon the moor,” said Dr. Mortimer.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
Several times Stapleton lurked about with his hound, but without avail.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
There is a delightful freshness about you, Watson, which makes it a pleasure to exercise any small powers which I possess at your expense.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
And he made you swear to say nothing about your appointment with Sir Charles?
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
I think it’s well worth troubling about.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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Usage
14 uses of ‘about’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
123 uses of ‘about’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
151 uses of ‘about’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
105 uses of ‘about’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle