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1  Wait a bit though, he added after a pause.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
2  A small boy was waiting upon the platform.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets
3  And he is waiting, this villain, beside that candle.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
4  I think it unlikely that he waited at the moor-gate every evening.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3. The Problem
5  I waited until he had passed out of sight and then I followed him.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
6  We pulled up halfway down the street and waited an hour and a half.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
7  There's another one waiting for you if you can bring any more information.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
8  Outside, beyond the low, white fence, a wagonette with a pair of cobs was waiting.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
9  Our friends had already secured a first-class carriage and were waiting for us upon the platform.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
10  Our breakfast table was cleared early, and Holmes waited in his dressing-gown for the promised interview.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
11  I saw him rejoin his guest, and I crept quietly back to where my companions were waiting to tell them what I had seen.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
12  First we drove down to the Northumberland Hotel and waited there until two gentlemen came out and took a cab from the rank.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
13  For half an hour I waited with every nerve on the alert, but there came no other sound save the chiming clock and the rustle of the ivy on the wall.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
14  "Our case becomes rounded off, and difficulty after difficulty thins away in front of us," said Holmes as we stood waiting for the arrival of the express from town.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets
15  I should then at my leisure have hired a second cab and followed the first at a respectful distance, or, better still, have driven to the Northumberland Hotel and waited there.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
16  Driving back in the evening from Coombe Tracey he was in time to get his hound, to treat it with his infernal paint, and to bring the beast round to the gate at which he had reason to expect that he would find the old gentleman waiting.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
17  I followed the footsteps down the yew alley, I saw the spot at the moor-gate where he seemed to have waited, I remarked the change in the shape of the prints after that point, I noted that there were no other footsteps save those of Barrymore on the soft gravel, and finally I carefully examined the body, which had not been touched until my arrival.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
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