Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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
“Really, Watson, you excel yourself,” said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
“Is that his design in settling here?”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Since we have been so unfortunate as to miss him and have no notion of his errand, this accidental souvenir becomes of importance.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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
“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
The lieutenant kept riding his horse out into the fields and saying to him, “I’m drunk, I tell you, mon vieux.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
“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
You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“What is his name?”
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
The first matador got the horn through his sword hand and the crowd hooted him out.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
“My dear Mr. Bennet,” replied his wife, “how can you be so tiresome!
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Do you not want to know who has taken it?” cried his wife impatiently.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— of or relating to him or himself especially as possessor, agent, or object of an action
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Macmillan
— used for showing that something belongs to or is connected with a man, boy, or male animal that has already been mentioned
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Other Word Forms
he
Usage
43 uses of ‘his’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
1271 uses of ‘his’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
494 uses of ‘his’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
692 uses of ‘his’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle