Take the common denominator and divide by 3
midnight shakes the memory :)
Answer:
One way to rewrite this paragraph without figures of speech and idioms would be:
"We had the greatest vacation ever! We went to a beautiful beach. The sand was extremely white. We lay in the shade of the blowing palm trees all afternoon, watching the butterflies and birds. In the evening, the ocean was incredibly clear. We could look right down into the water and see coral reefs and bright fish. When I told my friends about it, they were all very jealous! They all said they wished they could have gone!"
Because there was a demented HOUND that had been tormented by Sir Henry's enemies to try to kill him. And, his enemies had stolen a shoe, Sir H's scent from which had been sniffed by the HOUND !!!! Dartmoor, UK, is a pretty desolate place when it's the 1800s and there's a hound hounding you. Even i you are the heir to "The Baskerville Fortune" ... Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson ....
