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1  I've driven my cab this seven years and never a word of complaint.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
2  On observing the cab I should have instantly turned and walked in the other direction.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
3  Then we had the visit from our friends next morning, shadowed always by Stapleton in the cab.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
4  His method had the additional advantage that if they were to take a cab he was all ready to follow them.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
5  First we drove down to the Northumberland Hotel and waited there until two gentlemen came out and took a cab from the rank.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
6  Instantly the trapdoor at the top flew up, something was screamed to the driver, and the cab flew madly off down Regent Street.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
7  At that instant I was aware of a bushy black beard and a pair of piercing eyes turned upon us through the side window of the cab.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
8  Then he dashed in wild pursuit amid the stream of the traffic, but the start was too great, and already the cab was out of sight.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
9  And always, apart from the hound, there is the fact of the human agency in London, the man in the cab, and the letter which warned Sir Henry against the moor.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
10  So wily was he that he had not trusted himself upon foot, but he had availed himself of a cab so that he could loiter behind or dash past them and so escape their notice.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
11  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.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
12  An instant afterwards he gave a little cry of satisfaction, and, following the direction of his eager eyes, I saw that a hansom cab with a man inside which had halted on the other side of the street was now proceeding slowly onward again.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
13  Holmes sat in silence in the cab as we drove back to Baker Street, and I knew from his drawn brows and keen face that his mind, like my own, was busy in endeavouring to frame some scheme into which all these strange and apparently disconnected episodes could be fitted.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads