hound
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It’s small wonder fiction’s greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, faced the savage Hound of the Baskervilles amid the nocturnal mists of a mire.
From National Geographic • Feb. 16, 2024
The first edition of the Sherlock Holmes' adventure Hound Of The Baskervilles is signed with the comment: "I perambulated Dartmoor before I wrote this book," a reference to the book's setting.
From BBC • Jul. 9, 2023
She was then a teenage student, in the PNB School’s Professional Division, dancing the roles of Hound and Epilogue Fairy when the company went on tour to Istanbul and Hong Kong in 1999.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2023
Tár tries to follow a comely cellist into her apartment, but instead encounters a dank basement and a hulking black dog that recalls the maybe-supernatural Hound of the Baskervilles.
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2022
“To the ghoul-gates? No. Those are for ghouls. I am a Hound of God. I travel my own road, into Hell and out of it.”
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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