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1  You see, it isn't like any ordinary convict.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
2  There's a convict escaped from Princetown, sir.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
3  Then fourteen miles away the great convict prison of Princetown.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3. The Problem
4  We after the convict, and a hell-hound, as likely as not, after us.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
5  I thought of the convict out upon the bleak, cold, shelterless moor.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
6  He's in hiding, too, but he's not a convict as far as I can make out.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
7  "Quite happy," said she, but there was no ring of conviction in her words.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
8  It was on his track, and not upon the convict's, that Frankland had stumbled.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
9  There was such a ring of conviction in his voice that I glanced up in surprise.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
10  The woman's words came with an intense earnestness which carried conviction with them.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
11  One of these, concerning which I have said little, is the escaped convict upon the moor.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
12  I proceed, then, from the morning which followed our abortive chase of the convict and our other strange experiences upon the moor.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
13  At the same moment the convict screamed out a curse at us and hurled a rock which splintered up against the boulder which had sheltered us.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
14  To hear a hound upon the moor would not work a hard man like this convict into such a paroxysm of terror that he would risk recapture by screaming wildly for help.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
15  No wonder the poor devil of a convict ran and screamed, even as our friend did, and as we ourselves might have done, when he saw such a creature bounding through the darkness of the moor upon his track.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
16  He is curiously employed at present, for, being an amateur astronomer, he has an excellent telescope, with which he lies upon the roof of his own house and sweeps the moor all day in the hope of catching a glimpse of the escaped convict.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
17  And now, having brought you up to date in the escaped convict, the Stapletons, Dr. Mortimer, and Frankland, of Lafter Hall, let me end on that which is most important and tell you more about the Barrymores, and especially about the surprising development of last night.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
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