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The Hound of the Baskervilles vocabulary
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monograph
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synonyms: treatise, tractate, ~tome ???
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Definition:A written account or description of a single thing, or class of things; a special treatise on a particular subject of limited range.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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"[...] Here is my monograph upon the tracing of footsteps, with some remarks upon the uses of plaster of Paris as a preserver of impresses.
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of the Four
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He had published a slender book in German, a monograph of some kind on Feuerbach.
Marilynne Robinson. Gilead, p.25 (2004)
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Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves.
Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five (1968)
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At her table, she collected dozens of articles and monographs about Caravaggio and began reading through them.
Jonathan Harr. The Lost Painting, p.44 (2006)
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