Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles, C. 4-6

adj. • So furious was he that he was hardly articulate, and when he did speak it was in a much broader and more Western dialect than any which we had heard from him in the morning.

adj. • The commutation of his death sentence had been due to some doubts as to his complete sanity, so atrocious was his conduct.

n: a member of the lowest hereditary titled British order, with the status of a commoner but able to use the prefix “Sir.” • There was something in the young baronet's steady eye and the quiet assurance of his bearing that indicated the gentleman.

v. [transitive] • He had besmirched the good name of his family with his bad behavior.

v. [intransitive] • By an indiscreet eagerness, which our opponent took advantage of with extraordinary quickness and energy, we have betrayed ourselves and lost our man.

n. • I was glad when the meal was over and we were able to retired into the modern billiard-room for a game and smoke a cigarette.

v. [transitive] • You may be cajoled into imagining that your own business will be encouraged by a protective tariff, but such legislation will in the long run keep wealth away from the country, diminish the value of our imports, and lower the general conditions of life in this island.

n: 1. (of a landscape) having many steep or rugged rocks or cliff face; 2. (of a cliff or rock face) rough and uneven • In front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors.

n. • So furious was he that he was hardly articulate, and when he did speak it was in a much broader and more Western dialect than any which we had heard from him in the morning.

v. [intransitive]: try hard to do or achieve something • I knew from his drawn brows and keen face that his mind, like my own, was busy in endeavoring to frame some scheme into which all these strange and apparently disconnected episodes could be fitted.

adj: knobbly, rough, and twisted, esp. with age • In front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors.

adj. • Setting aside the whole grim story of Sir Charles's death, we had a line of inexplicable accidents all within the limits of two days, which include the receipt of the printed letter, the black-bearded spy in the hansom, the loss of the new brown boot.

adj. • She was pale, languid, and weak, as if she had been starving for weeks.

n. • After witnessing the pony struggle vainly in the mire, she was overcome by a feeling of melancholy.

n. • A picture of Dartmoor - http://preview.tinyurl.com/m9oancx • Behind the peaceful and sunlit countryside, there rose ever dark against the evening sky, the long, gloomy curve of the moor, broken by the jagged and sinister hills.

adj. • In front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors.

• N. • On the summit, hard and clear like an equestrian statue upon its pedestal, was a mounted soldier, dark and stern, his rifle poised ready over his forearm.

v. • On the summit, hard and clear like an equestrian statue upon its pedestal, was a mounted soldier, dark and stern, his rifle poised ready over his forearm.

adj: eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight • The young baronet was a small, alert, dark-eyed man about thirty years of age, very sturdily built, with thick black eyebrows and a strong, pugnacious face.

v. [usually used in passive voice / transitive] •The figure of a woman was silhouetted against the yellow light of the hall.

adj: giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen • Behind the peaceful and sunlit countryside, there rose ever dark against the evening sky, the long, gloomy curve of the moor, broken by the jagged and sinister hills.

adj. • The night skies were somber and starless.

adj. • When two black-clothed gentlemen sat in the little circle of light thrown by a shaded lamp, one's voice became hushed and one's spirit subdued.

n. • You may be cajoled into imagining that your own business will be encouraged by a protective tariff, but such legislation will in the long run keep wealth away from the country, diminish the value of our imports, and lower the general conditions of life in this island.

n. (can be used as adj.): a rough-surfaced woolen cloth, typically of mixed flecked colors, originally produced in Scotland • Image - http://www.cotswolds-visiting-tailor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Shooting-Jacket-small.jpg • He wore a ruddy-tinted tweed suit and had the weather-beaten appearance of one who has spent most of his time in the open air.

v. [intransitive] • Time-lapse photography shows the moon waning ever smaller.

• adj • I found myself weary and yet wakeful, tossing restlessly from side to side, seeking for the sleep which would not come.