Example of alliteration from the hound of the baskervilles?

Answer 1

Alliteration is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. The end of this sentence has four words that begin with the letter 's.'

"As we watched it the fog-wreaths came crawling round both corners of the house and rolled slowly into one dense bank, on which the upper floor and the roof floated like a strange ship upon a shadowy sea." -- Dr John Watson, 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', Chapter 14.

Answer 2

old longing again from its brumal sleep wakens the ferine strain