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  • It seemed, rather, the accepted knowledge of the town, not to be mentioned—except in passing, or in parentheses, or as an aside among intimates.†   (source)
  • —Briony had her first, weak intimation that for her now it could no longer be fairy-tale castles and princesses, but the strangeness of the here and now, of what passed between people, the ordinary people that she knew, and what power one could have over the other, and how easy it was to get everything wrong, completely wrong.†   (source)
  • All this intimation of tragedy.†   (source)
  • I have spoke nothin', but my heart has clamored intimations.†   (source)
  • There's a shiver of premonition about it somehow, as if perhaps he had an intimation that this tiny mysterious piece would be one of the very few works to outlive him.†   (source)
  • Charming, distinguished, and courtly, Pete Zeiss is called "Poppa" by his intimates and has been tried on charges of murder and accessory to murder.†   (source)
  • In Bengali the word for pet name is daknam, meaning, literally, the name by which one is called, by friends, family, and other intimates, at home and in other private, unguarded moments.†   (source)
  • For a lot of us, that particular show was either our first encounter with the Bard or our first intimation that he could actually be fun, since in public school, you may recall, they only teach his tragedies.†   (source)
  • It was a focused glass, to be used for emergencies by the royal family and their intimates.†   (source)
  • A faint intimation that I have judged Madaline harshly, that we weren't even that different, she and 1.†   (source)
  • Had [Howard] been placed in some institution, as Holmes had intimated his intention of doing, or was he hidden in some obscure place beyond reach or discovery?†   (source)
  • At the end of the hearing, Palmgren intimated that compulsory institutionalisation was in all probability not only contrary to Parliament's decisions in similar situations, but in this particular case it might in addition be the subject of political and media reprisals.†   (source)
  • The eldest also intimated that the mother was a mild anal retentive personality.†   (source)
  • When Doris intimated that he might never see her again, his thoughts about her had gone into overdrive.†   (source)
  • to her it intimated dignity, significance and prestige.†   (source)
  • For the first time, he had an intimation of how she would look when she grew old.†   (source)
  • This was my first intimation that something had gone seriously wrong.†   (source)
  • You have already intimated you have knowledge of these affairs.†   (source)
  • My notes in the chart perhaps gave some intimation of similar skills with a knife (though I will say it is not a rule, and the converse isn't true: chicken-scratch scribbles aren't a sign of poor technique in the theater).†   (source)
  • His lawyer, it was intimated, was the problem.†   (source)
  • I might divide it into two basic types: The first type of reaction came from people who themselves (they or their intimates) had retracted something, who had themselves been forced to make public peace with the occupation regime or were prepared to do so (unwillingly, of courseno one wanted to do it).†   (source)
  • I was pretty sure she wasn't in prison for a drug crime, and I had a suspicion or intimation that she'd given the feds a bit of a chase before being taken into custody, which is probably why she'd ended up down the hill.†   (source)
  • Pap rolled his head between his shoulders with a negative motion which intimated that it was not well.†   (source)
  • Milo was the corn god, the rain god and the rice god in backward regions where such crude gods were still worshiped by ignorant and superstitious people, and deep inside the jungles of Africa, he intimated with becoming modesty, large graven images of his mustached face could be found overlooking primitive stone altars red with human blood.†   (source)
  • They intimated that they and their men were about at the end of their rope.†   (source)
  • But your letter was the first intimation that another tribe more numerous and powerful than all the rest were grown discontented.†   (source)
  • I could feel it all around me, that invisible presence, chilly as the first intimation of death, the dusty unblinking eyes of a thousand snakes.†   (source)
  • And in the fog there appears an intimation of a figure.†   (source)
  • The first intimation he had that something was wrong was a long shadow that fell across the sidewalk, overlapping his own.†   (source)
  • "1 assure you I had nothing to do with it," Taggart said hastily, "and besides, the vital economic policies of this country are not determined by any considerations such as you're intimating or—"†   (source)
  • Apparently Carl had intimated to her that I had more money than was good for me, for she decided that the night before was just the time for her to get acquainted with the local champagne.†   (source)
  • It's like two people still standing at a bus terminal after all the passengers have been met, the instant shared feeling almost enough to make them intimates.†   (source)
  • Then a policeman arrived and intimated, in the forceful way in which they often intimate, that I should return the coins to the water.†   (source)
  • "J. W. Booth will ship oysters until Saturday 15th," it reads, intimating that Booth, a man who never worked a day in his life in the shipping or the oyster business, was involved in some kind of project that was totally inappropriate for his skills.†   (source)
  • At the time I had interpreted the last question as an intimation that there was a secret door, a door soon to be opened.†   (source)
  • And the danger intimated must be merely ideal.†   (source)
  • Her married daughter, Boo Boo, had intimated that it might have to be given a coup de grace with a blunt instrument before it was laid away in a wastebasket.†   (source)
  • No la-di-da portes cocheres, with their intimations of chauffeured limousines gliding up to let their passengers off!†   (source)
  • "How are you feeling, Mr. McLean?" he asked seriously in a voice that contained no threat, no intimation of cruelty.†   (source)
  • Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing; intimations of suicide, forgoing of exercise, loss of mirth, hints of claustrophobia not to say delusions of imprisonment; invocations of camels, chameleons, capons, whales, weasels, hawks, handsaws-riddles, quibbles and evasions; amnesia, paranoia, myopia; day-dreaming, hallucinations; stabbing his elders, abusing his parents, insulting his lover, and appearing hatless in public-knock-kneed, droopstockinged and sighing like a love-sick schoolboy, which at his age is coming on a bit strong.†   (source)
  • Oedipa wondered whether, at the end of this (if it were supposed to end), she too might not be left with only compiled memories of clues, announcements, intimations, but never the central truth itself, which must somehow each time be too bright for her memory to hold; which must always blaze out, destroying its own message irreversibly, leaving an overexposed blank when the ordinary world came back.†   (source)
  • We hear a boy's voice whispering; perhaps we see shadowy intimations of these speakers in the background.†   (source)
  • She did not try to proselytize, only intimating to Sophie that for the suffering of her own imprisonment she would find ample reward in Jehovah's Kingdom.†   (source)
  • "Poor Dick," she said tranquilly, at last, from her recovered distance from him; and a flicker of terror touched her, an intimation of that terror which would later engulf her.†   (source)
  • When the cheering had died down, Napoleon, who had remained on his feet, intimated that he too had a few words to say.   (source)
    intimated = indicated (showed indirectly)
  • Or, must she receive those intimations—so obscure, yet so distinct—as truth?   (source)
    intimations = indications of something
  • But there was something in the latter's expression that warned back the magistrate, although a man not readily obeying the vague intimations that pass from one spirit to another.   (source)
    intimations = indications
  • First, as I have intimated several times before and will discuss later, irony trumps everything.†   (source)
  • I come close to asking whether she had ever had any intimations of my existence.†   (source)
  • She had cut through all the rhetoric and intimated that the prime minister himself was responsible.†   (source)
  • It carried intimations of the woman she would grow up to be.†   (source)
  • In those early conversations were the first intimations that we were becoming a class.†   (source)
  • I knew also, from what she had intimated, that he had kept Sophie in the dark about his project.†   (source)
  • But I had no intimates, just hundreds of acquaintances.†   (source)
  • Sedgwick intimated that he liked to see teachers fired up about their jobs.†   (source)
  • "Whatever it was," says Jane Bromet, one of the handful of intimates who knew about the ailment, "it produced malaria-like symptoms, even though it wasn't malaria.†   (source)
  • Not to know — to snatch at hints and portents, at intimations, at tantalizing whispers — it is as bad as being haunted.†   (source)
  • I have intimations of some vast discovery still, if I could only see my way clear; though as yet I wander in darkness, led only by marsh-lights.†   (source)
  • To the side were the filets of haddock and the basket of mussels, while on the stove sat a great copper pot from which small clouds of steam graced the air with other intimations of the sea.†   (source)
  • When she mentioned the first husband, I noticed that, for the first time since I had met her, a shadow had settled on her face, a momentary intimation of something dark and chastening, wounding, at odds with the energetic laughs and the teasing and the loose pumpkin floral dress she was wearing.†   (source)
  • This pattern of entry into adult life, Mansfield intimates, has been a recognizable part of our culture for thousands of years; of course it has always been there, but the myth embodying the archetype has continued unbroken through Western culture since the very early Greeks.†   (source)
  • Given all the excitement, I thought it unlikely—and knowing me as she did, I doubted she was expecting much in the way of a surprise, despite what I had intimated last night.†   (source)
  • All the hints and intimations, all the things she spied in me at the beginning of our time together—come to some completion now.†   (source)
  • I've never really liked this kind of thinking, either theirs or mine, and have always wished to be in a situation like the one I have steadily fashioned for myself in this town, where, if I don't have many intimates or close friends, I'm at least a quantity known, somebody long ago counted.†   (source)
  • In cities you build a language of circumspection and tact, a thousand little intimations, the nuance that has a shimmer of rubbed bronze.†   (source)
  • The heavier the burden and the closer you get to the end, the more viscous time becomes, and you see, in slow motion, intimations of eternity.†   (source)
  • The second type of reaction came from people who themselves (they or their intimates) had been persecuted, who had refused to compromise with the occupation powers or were convinced they would refuse to compromise (to sign a statement) even though no one had requested it of them (for instance, because they were too young to be seriously involved).†   (source)
  • Perhaps the unbecoming force of my outburst brought home to him the gravity of his task, filled him with intimations of an unwieldy fate.†   (source)
  • And as I've already intimated, they all seemed particularly surprised and pleased that I hadn't run over to their houses with wrapped presents and invitations and hopeful, clinging embraces; in fact, I must have given them the reassuring thought of how safe they actually were, how shielded, that an interloper might immediately recognize and so heed the rules of their houses.†   (source)
  • Sandi turned to the woman whose blurry, alcoholic eyes and ironic smile intimated the things Sandi was just beginning to learn, things that the dancers knew all about, which was why they danced with such vehemence, such passion.†   (source)
  • The coloring of her mind became black as a midnight cloud, full of intimations of death and violence.†   (source)
  • A flicker reminded her that there had been some intimation that Kaelie and Jace had once had a fling, but the fact seemed so minor in the face of everything else that she couldn't bring herself to mind it.†   (source)
  • She had that distinctive English quality of looking terrifically fresh and crisp even while conveying tawdry intimations of the state of her underwear and the fact that she bathes only under pressure from her roommates, Fiona and Georgina.†   (source)
  • The senior next door intimated to Tradd and me that he suspected Bentley had become a project of a secret organization called The Ten.†   (source)
  • In my current state, bearing the death impression of the Nyodene cloud, I was ready to search anywhere for signs and hints, intimations of odd comfort.†   (source)
  • In fact, throughout that first year, he gave intimations that he loved both its regularities and its aberrations.†   (source)
  • The balding men from the Upper West Side were here, with shaggy sidelocks and intimations of suffering, and the women were with them—frizzy, lippy, opinionated, with full bodies and big rich real faces and a brassy way of laughing.†   (source)
  • I had no doubts then, and none now, that I spent four years in the loveliest city on the continent and that some indelible mark of civilization, some passionate intimacy with form and beauty, would remain with me always if only I were vigilant enough, if only I were resolute in my intention to assimilate the resonances and intimations of that exquisite city.†   (source)
  • In the place where she was going, it was not these things that mattered but something else, for which —she had no name, only a cold intimation, something that she could not alter in any degree, and that she had never thought of.†   (source)
  • She strained to hear any faintest intimation of movement that would tell her they were still here, but there was nothing.†   (source)
  • This intimation made my heart heavy and, now that my father was irrecoverable, I wished that he had been beside me so that I could have searched his face for the answers which only the future would give me now.†   (source)
  • Star sprinkled her speech with "milords" because she was much too polite to say "Hey, Mac!" even with her intimates.†   (source)
  • "Body?" she asked in a tone intimating that she had incriminating evidence against my sanity "Yeh, body of water."†   (source)
  • Man always sat, the notebooks, the Bible, the legal books, the wide, clean window looking out on a world now utterly vanished—expanses where trees grew taller than any trees grow now, where fences stood out in precise detail and flowers were sharp particulars—a world where, for all the offices of the banjo clock and for all the gloomy intimations of the boggy, squitchy painting hanging on the study wall, a sailing vessel sinking in an eerie light, there was Space stretching out endlessly from the center of his child's brain, but no hint yet of the antique serpent, the old destroyer, Time.†   (source)
  • Simultaneously the light at left has been rising, slowly, so slowly that it seems at first we only imagine what is intimated in the yard: few ghostlike figures, in silence, motionless, waiting.†   (source)
  • Several administrators intimated that whatever I taught the Yamacraw children, it would be infinitely superior to what they had learned before, regardless of what methods I employed.†   (source)
  • I dream a strange confounded dream in which intimations of bliss are transfused with lacerating pain.†   (source)
  • He was so much the embodiment of everything I deemed attractive and even envied in a human being that I couldn't help but suspect that the somber side of her Polish imagination had dreamed up these intimations of strife and doom.†   (source)
  • In one of his rambling dissertations on what's good and what's bad for Yamacraw, he intimated that his formidable array of hardware was added insurance that the natives would never venture into his compound uninvited.†   (source)
  • But I had not been in the least dismayed by the fact that these coolie wages were dispensed by one of the most powerful and wealthy publishers in the world; young and resilient, I approached my job—at least at the very beginning—with a sense of lofty purpose; and besides, in compensation, the work bore intimations of glamour: lunch at "21," dinner with John O'Hara, poised and brilliant but carnal-minded lady writers melting at my editorial acumen, and so on.†   (source)
  • Nor did his demeanour change when the withdrawal of the prison keeper left him face to face with the woman, whose absorbed notice of him, in the crowd, had intimated so close a relation between himself and her.†   (source)
    intimated = hinted or suggested
  • And the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale's best discerning friends, as we have intimated, very reasonably imagined that the hand of Providence had done all this for the purpose—besought in so many public and domestic and secret prayers—of restoring the young minister to health.†   (source)
  • The longer he worked the more he felt that he was stumbling about among great dim intimations.†   (source)
  • Still, they have had an intimation, and that's so much to the good.†   (source)
  • Oran, however, seems to be a town without intimations; in other words, completely modern.†   (source)
  • She had intimated, however, that he didn't come by them honestly.†   (source)
  • Gypsy Jones was holding a revival at the time and he intimated that the church was destroyed because the Episcopalians gave card parties.†   (source)
  • Granny intimated boldly, basing her logic on God's justice, that one sinful person in a household could bring down the wrath of God upon the entire establishment, damning both the innocent and the guilty, and on more than one occasion she interpreted my mother's long illness as the result of my faithlessness.†   (source)
  • I have kept up with you through Miss Pittypat but she gave me no intimation that you had developed womanly sweetness.†   (source)
  • But then, Mrs. Ramsay, though instantly taking his side against all the silly Giddingses in the world, then, she thought, intimating by a little pressure on his arm that he walked up hill too fast for her, and she must stop for a moment to see whether those were fresh molehills on the bank, then, she thought, stooping down to look, a great mind like his must be different in every way from ours.†   (source)
  • In some sense that went deeper than friendship, they were intimates: somewhere or other, although the actual words might never be spoken, there was a place where they could meet and talk.†   (source)
  • But others like it, and find in it mystery and fascination, and prelude to adventure, and an intimation of the unknown.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Julia recognized in Brenda Champion an intimation of what she and her friends might be in twelve years' time; there was an antagonism between the girl and the woman that was hard to explain otherwise.†   (source)
  • The first intimation she had had in four years that her nephew was still alive was the afternoon when Wash Jones, riding Sutpen's remaining mule, stopped in front of the house and began to shout her name.†   (source)
  • Before Jody had been dead a month, she noticed how often men who had never been intimates of Joe, drove considerable distances to ask after her welfare and offer their services as advisor.†   (source)
  • She just walked into it, probably hurrying toward the seclusion of the carriage where she could weep; perhaps her first intimation was the voice shouting, "Look out!†   (source)
  • In the earliest stages of her progress upward she had intimated to Uncle Pio that he was not to be seen with her in public, but finally she became impatient even of his discreeter visits.†   (source)
  • That night and the night after and the night after, wherever she went, always in her own little circle of intimates, she brought a moment of joy, such as strikes deep to the heart on the river's bank when the kingfisher suddenly flares across the water.†   (source)
  • It happened in that fashion that men call illusion, or the imaginings of people overwrought, or an intimation of the divine.†   (source)
  • In those mirrors, the minds of men, in those pools of uneasy water, in which clouds for ever turn and shadows form, dreams persisted, and it was impossible to resist the strange intimation which every gull, flower, tree, man and woman, and the white earth itself seemed to declare (but if questioned at once to withdraw) that good triumphs, happiness prevails, order rules; or to resist the extraordinary stimulus to range hither and thither in search of some absolute good, some crystal of intensity, remote from the known pleasures and familiar virtues, something alien to the processes of domestic life, single, hard, bright, like a diamond in the sand, which would render the possessor secure.†   (source)
  • than voluntary or even acquiescent participation in, breathing—this bound maidservant to flesh and blood waiting even now to escape it by writing a schoolgirl's poetry about the also-dead—the face, the smallest face in company, watching him across the table with still and curious and profound intensity as though she actually had some intimation gained from that rapport with the fluid cradle of events (time) which she had acquired or cultivated by listening beyond closed doors not to what she heard there but by becoming supine and receptive, incapable of either discrimination or opinion or incredulity, to the pre-fever's temperature of disaster which makes soothsayers and sometimes make†   (source)
  • Nor did he even try to speak, thus intimating, after his fashion, that he could no longer let his attention stray.†   (source)
  • I was not concerned to impress the new freshmen who, like their London sisters, were here being launched in Society; there were strange faces now at every party and I, who a few months back had been voracious of new acquaintances, now felt surfeited; even our small circle of intimates, so lively in the summer sunshine, seemed dimmed and muted now in the pervading fog, the river-borne twilight that softened and obscured all that year for me.†   (source)
  • The first intimation of their return was the sound of luggage being thumped on the fronthall floor and Bonnie's voice crying, "Mother!"†   (source)
  • The faintest intimation from him, in the orchard, that some day things might be different and she would never have thought of going to Rhett.†   (source)
  • Rex's age was greatly in his favor, for among Julia's friends there was a kind of gerontophilic snobbery; young men were held to be gauche and pimply; it was thought very much more chic to be seen lunching alone at the Ritz—a thing, in any case, allowed to few girls of that day, to the tiny circle of Julia's intimates; a thing looked at askance by the elders who kept the score, chatting pleasantly against the walls of the ballrooms—at the table on the left as you came in, with a starched and wrinkled old roué whom your mother had been warned of as a girl, than in the center of the room with a party of exuberant young bloods.†   (source)
  • India bowed coldly and, putting her hand upon the door knob, intimated silently that his speedy retirement would be welcome.†   (source)
  • Such people were Scarlett's intimates now, but those who attended her larger receptions included others of some culture and refinement, many of excellent families.†   (source)
  • But, when she intimated this delicately to Frank, the day after they married, he smiled and told her not to bother her sweet pretty little head about business matters.†   (source)
  • You never intimated—†   (source)
  • There was scarcely an intimation of movement from the pit.†   (source)
  • Laramie appeared to be agitated by this intimation of friendship.†   (source)
  • Montgomery intimated that was his destination.†   (source)
  • She could not grasp Roberts's intimation.†   (source)
  • An intimation of the result pricked him like the point of a sharp instrument.†   (source)
  • Sometimes from the depths of her there flashed up at odd moments intimations of a future revolt.†   (source)
  • And it was Anson who caught the first intimation of an impending doom.†   (source)
  • Yet none of her intimates in the school and in the boarding-house knew of her abyss of passion.†   (source)
  • She received faint intimations of wavering, of uncertainty, of vague doubt.†   (source)
  • It is a faint intimation, yet so are the first streaks of morning.†   (source)
  • Evil thoughts became my sole intimates—the darkest and most evil of thoughts.†   (source)
  • —It was the first intimation of his being returned from London.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Reynolds respect for Elizabeth seemed to increase on this intimation of her knowing her master.†   (source)
  • Both negroes grinned a horrid grin, at this intimation.†   (source)
  • Called thus suddenly away, she left me without the slightest intimation of who my father was.†   (source)
  • Now, give me of your taste some intimation.†   (source)
  • The old man closed his eyes eagerly, thereby intimating that such was his wish.†   (source)
  • It may be thought the Doctor was too positive, and Mrs. Almond intimated as much.†   (source)
  • I intimated this, gently, to the king, and it fired his curiosity.†   (source)
  • As I intimated just now, you'll be tired some day.†   (source)
  • I intimated that I hoped I should be what she described.†   (source)
  • The old man intimated that such was his meaning.†   (source)
  • There was nobody but himself, he intimated, worthy of my confidence, and—in short, might he?†   (source)
  • I have intimated my view of the case: I am incapable of taking any other.†   (source)
  • "But the blots, Turkey," intimated I. "True,—but, with submission, sir, behold these hairs!†   (source)
  • Diana intimated that this would be a different parting from any they had ever yet known.†   (source)
  • But, he intimated that when she came home he should hope to have the pleasure of entertaining me.†   (source)
  • I have again and again intimated that I desire the hair to be arranged closely, modestly, plainly.†   (source)
  • He asked the landlady if she could keep the place clean for him and cook his breakfast, but she replied that she had enough work to do without that; and he was pleased rather than otherwise because she intimated that she wished to have nothing more to do with him than to receive his rent.†   (source)
  • And so, shivering, scared, and sniffing with the first intimations of a cold, and with the bruises in the small of my back growing upon my attention, I drove slowly along Oxford Street and past Tottenham Court Road.†   (source)
  • The first intimation that he had of her being aroused from sleep or lethargy was a low call for water.†   (source)
  • He who had once controlled or seemed to control his life in a progress unimpassioned but diligent and sane was for that fortnight borne on a current of desire and very bad whisky and all the complications of new acquaintances, those furious new intimates who demand so much more attention than old friends.†   (source)
  • Finally, in consequence of grave intimations of wrong-doing made by the Secretary and his subordinates, General Howard was court-martialed in 1874.†   (source)
  • Which of these people whom she passed, now mere arrangements of hair and clothes, would turn into intimates, loved or dreaded, different from all the other people in the world?†   (source)
  • With her necessity for reticences, with her coldness of manner, Leonora had singularly few intimates.†   (source)
  • It was here that I was destined, at a later date, to have a very strange experience—the first intimation of a still stranger discovery—but of that I will speak in its proper place.†   (source)
  • When the invitation came to me, there was not one word of intimation as to what I should say or as to what I should omit.†   (source)
  • But among these people as she could see—the religious and moral, lower middle-class group to which she and all of her intimates belonged—dancing or local adventurous gayety, such as walking the streets or going to a moving picture theater—was also taboo.†   (source)
  • "Tommy" Hinds, as he was known to his intimates, was a squat little man, with broad shoulders and a florid face, decorated with gray side whiskers.†   (source)
  • She had not only learned a new and striking viewpoint in natural history, but a clear intimation to the reason why she had vaguely imagined or divined a remarkable character in this man.†   (source)
  • To an immature nature essentially honest and humane, forewarning intimations of subtler danger from one's kind come tardily if at all.†   (source)
  • The future stretched away like the dim, strange, unknown purple distances, with an intimation of tragedy.†   (source)
  • There were moments when, as you "played king," you saw the intimation of a dream of love rising up out of death and this carnal body.†   (source)
  • He had intimates—the barber, the editor of the Eagle, the garageman—to whom he talked comfortably of hunting and the crops, and with whom he played poker.†   (source)
  • Chapter VIII INTIMATIONS BY WINTER: AN AMBASSADOR SUMMONER Among the force which sweep and play throughout the universe, untutored man is but a wisp in the wind.†   (source)
  • His little eyes were like tentacles thrown out to catch the floating intimations with which, to Selden, the air at moments seemed thick; then again it cleared to its normal emptiness, and he could see nothing in it for the journalist but leisure to note the elegance of the ladies' gowns.†   (source)
  • Evelyn was a good deal out of sorts, said Hugh, intimating by a kind of pout or swell of his very well-covered, manly, extremely handsome, perfectly upholstered body (he was almost too well dressed always, but presumably had to be, with his little job at Court) that his wife had some internal ailment, nothing serious, which, as an old friend, Clarissa Dalloway would quite understand without requiring him to specify.†   (source)
  • He urged his mustang to the descent of the slope, and as he went down, slowly drawing nearer to the other fugitives, his mind alternated between this strange intimation of faith, this subtle uplift of hid spirit, and the growing gloom and shadow in his love for Fay Larkin.†   (source)
  • She had a spirit, however, that was waxing a little rebellious to all this intimation as to her susceptibility to colds and her probable weakness under privation.†   (source)
  • As I ascended the little hill beyond Pyrford Church the glare came into view again, and the trees about me shivered with the first intimation of the storm that was upon me.†   (source)
  • Since dropping Dillard he had no intimates let alone trustworthy friends who could be depended on to help in such a crisis.†   (source)
  • The letter from Dr. Stokes was not his only intimation that plague was striding through St. Hubert, that tomorrow it might be leaping to Barbados, to the Virgin Islands ....to New York.†   (source)
  • A hundred miles of desert travel, with its mistakes and lessons and intimations, had not prepared him for what he now saw.†   (source)
  • Whatever this something was, she had baffling intimations of it, hopes that faded on the verge of realizations, haunting promises that were unfulfilled.†   (source)
  • So she intimated, standing at her doorway; handsome; very erect; while her chow stretched behind her, and Miss Brush disappeared into the background with her hands full of papers.†   (source)
  • She did lift her head with the singular wild grace always a part of her actions, with that old unconscious intimation of innocence which always tortured Venters, but now with something more—a spirit rising from the depths that linked itself to his brave words.†   (source)
  • How plainly he had intimated that it must be privation and annoyance for her to be compelled to accept his hospitality!†   (source)
  • Look at him now, on tiptoe, dancing forward, bowing and scraping, as the Prime Minister and Lady Bruton emerged, intimating for all the world to see that he was privileged to say something, something private, to Lady Bruton as she passed.†   (source)
  • Once more he received subtle intimations of what he might learn out in the open; and it was with a less weighted heart that he faced the gateway between the huge yellow bluffs on his left and the slow rise of ground to the black mesa on his right.†   (source)
  • He used the names Bella, Myra and Gilbert as though they were long and assured intimates of his—an intimacy which invariably impressed Roberta greatly.†   (source)
  • She had her first faint intimation that perhaps her extensive experience of motor cars, express trains, transatlantic liners, and even a little of airplanes, did not range over the whole of adventurous life.†   (source)
  • She spoke little, however, and Venters was quick to catch in her the first intimations of thoughtfulness and curiosity and appreciation of her situation.†   (source)
  • But the strange religion—the narrowing down of the world to the soil of Utah, the intimations of prophets on earth who had direct converse with God, the austere self-conscious omnipotence of this old bishop—these were matters that Shefford felt he must understand better, and see more favorably, if he were not to consider them impossible.†   (source)
  • For there was in Sir William, whose father had been a tradesman, a natural respect for breeding and clothing, which shabbiness nettled; again, more profoundly, there was in Sir William, who had never had time for reading, a grudge, deeply buried, against cultivated people who came into his room and intimated that doctors, whose profession is a constant strain upon all the highest faculties, are not educated men.†   (source)
  • And in addition to these physical manifestations there were subtle intimations of a delight in a freedom of body she had never before known, of an exhilaration in action that made her hot and made her breathe, of a sloughing off of numberless petty and fussy and luxurious little superficialities which she had supposed were necessary to her happiness.†   (source)
  • He had no intimates and in consequence he could only think of presenting the problem as an imaginary one to one individual and another here or there in the hope of extracting some helpful information.†   (source)
  • And intimating that the undue haste of the district attorney in seeking a special term of the Supreme Court might possibly have a political rather than a purely legal meaning.†   (source)
  • By admitting that the wind had blown his hat off, Clyde had intimated that he had worn a hat on the lake, but not necessarily the straw hat found on the water.†   (source)
  • But how, without money, intimates, a more familiar understanding of the medical or if not that exactly, then the sub rosa world of sexual free-masonry which some at times—the bell-hops of the Green-Davidson, for instance, seemed to understand.†   (source)
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