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1  You know the lie of the land best.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
2  The probability lies in that direction.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
3  He has lied to me, the villain, in every conceivable way.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets
4  They have given up the chase there, and he can lie quiet until the ship is ready for him.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
5  In mere size and strength it was a terrible creature which was lying stretched before us.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
6  My inquiries show beyond all question that the family portrait did not lie, and that this fellow was indeed a Baskerville.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
7  On seeing him lying still the creature had probably approached to sniff at him, but finding him dead had turned away again.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
8  And yet he lied as he said it, for it chanced that after breakfast I met Mrs. Barrymore in the long corridor with the sun full upon her face.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
9  From this point onward I will follow the course of events by transcribing my own letters to Mr. Sherlock Holmes which lie before me on the table.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
10  If on that forbidding moor a difficult and dangerous quest should lie before us, this was at least a comrade for whom one might venture to take a risk with the certainty that he would bravely share it.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
11  Looking back we saw the figure moving slowly away over the broad moor, and behind him that one black smudge on the silvered slope which showed where the man was lying who had come so horribly to his end.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
12  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