Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles, C. 7-9

v. [transitive] • The fresh beauty of the following morning did something to efface from our minds the grim and gray impression which had been left upon both of us by our first experience of the Baskerville Hall.

adj. • When asked whether he could account for the sobbing we heard the night before, the butler's pallid features turned a shade paler still as he listened to his master's questions.

n. • My excursion was a pleasant walk of four miles along the edge of the moor, leading me at last to a small gray hamlet.

n. • Was he the agent or others or had he some sinister design of his own that he might persecute the Baskerville family?

adj. • Was the warning his work or was it possibly the doing of someone who was bent upon counteracting his schemes?

n.: behavior perceived as arrogant, disrespectful, and transgressing the limits of what is permitted or appropriate • I'm sure you will excuse my presumption, for here on the moor we are homely folk and do not wait for formal introductions.

adj.: having or showing too great a readiness to believe things • It is extraordinary how credulous the peasants are about here, for any number of them are ready to swear that they have seen a fiend dog of the devil upon the moor.

n. • It is extraordinary how credulous the peasants are about here, for any number of them are ready to swear that they have seen a fiend dog of the devil upon the moor.

adj. • You are perfectly right to be wary and discreet, and I am justly reproved for unjustly intruding upon your private investigation.

v. [transitive]: scold, reprimand, or censure (someone) • You are perfectly right to be wary and discreet, and I am justly reproved for unjustly intruding upon your private investigation.

v. [intransitive] • Looking round over the undulating downs, long green rollers, with crests of jagged granite foaming up into fantastic surges, he declared the moor a wonderful place he could never tire of.

n. • Looking round over the undulating downs, long green rollers, with crests of jagged granite foaming up into fantastic surges, he declared the moor a wonderful place he could never tire of.

adj. • He greeted her with a "Halloa!" but it seemed to me that the tone of his greeting was not altogether a cordial one.

v. [intransitive] • Something brown was rolling and tossing among the green, its long neck writhing to get free of the bog-hole.

adj. • He helps keep our lives from being monotonous and gives a little comic relief where it is badly needed.

adj. • That opening of the door which I had heard late at night after everyone was asleep might mean that he had gone out to keep some clandestine appointment.

v. [transitive] • When I came to think the matter over, my conscience reproached me bitterly for having on any pretext allowed him out of my sight and into possible danger.

n.: the expression or holding of opinions at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially held • I saw her making quick little movements of her hands as if she were very earnest in what she was saying, while he listened intently and once or twice shook his head in strong dissent.

v. [transitive] • He gesticulated and almost dance with excitement in front of the lovers, but it seemed to me that Stapleton was abusing Sir Henry, who offered explanations, which became more angry as the other refused to accept them.

adv. • That his advances should be rejected so brusquely without any reference to the lady's own wishes and that the lady should accept the situation without protest is very amazing.

n.: IGNORE THE VOCABULARY.COM DEFINITION. USE THIS - the final or eventual outcome or conclusion of a discussion, action, or series of events • He came to offer apologies for his rudeness of the morning, and after a long private interview with Sir Henry in his study, the upshot of their conversation was that the breach is quite healed.

n. • He came to offer apologies for his rudeness of the morning, and after a long private interview with Sir Henry in his study, the upshot of their conversation was that the breach is quite healed.

v. [transitive] • I pass on to another thread I have extricated out of the tangled skein.

n.: a length of thread or yarn, loosely coiled and knotted; a tangled or complicated arrangement, state, or situation • I pass on to another thread I have extricated out of the tangled skein.

n. • I sat up with Sir Henry in his rooms until nearly three o'clock in the morning, but no sound of any sort did we hear except the chiming clock that we ended this vigil by each of us falling asleep in our chairs.

v. [intransitive]: move somewhere quietly or surreptitiously • Softly we stole along until we had come into the other wing, just in time to catch a glimpse of the tall figure as he tiptoed down the passage.

v. [transitive] • Vaguely I could discern the black bank of the trees and the lighter expanse of the moor, for the moon was behind the clouds.

n.: the demonstration of sincere and intense conviction • The woman's words came with an intense earnestness which carried conviction with them.

n. • The woman's words came with an intense earnestness which carried conviction with them.

adj.: extremely wicked • The evil yellow face, a terrible animal face, was all seamed and scored with vile passions, foul with mire.