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    If so, Pari had an inkling she'd done so more as a jealous lover than a protective mother.†  (source)
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    As much as she held me in contempt, she may never have had any real inkling of my true helplessness.†  (source)
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    Harry saw Yaxley's head turn, saw an inkling of truth dawn on that brutish face.†  (source)
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    Now her mother seemed to know the truth, or to have some inkling of it.†  (source)
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    Yet it was the French Revolution that gave us the first inklings of feminism.†  (source)
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    One began to get an inkling of what law was about only when the time came to practice it.†  (source)
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    Tate noticed that while her face and body showed early inklings and foothills of womanhood, her mannerisms and turns of phrase were somewhat childlike, in contrast to the village girls whose mannerisms—overdoing their makeup, cussing, and smoking—outranked their foothills.†  (source)
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    Their first inkling came when her father phoned and asked if they had any idea of Amy's whereabouts.†  (source)
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    What it felt like was sitting in Sunday school singing "Jesus Loves Me," sitting in the little chairs, surrounded by sunlight and bright drawings, and having those first inklings of doubt, except that doubt presents itself simply as added knowledge, something new, for the moment, to set beside what is already known.†  (source)
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    "I mean, don't you have any inkling of the reasons for all this?" asked Ford.†  (source)
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    And you need not exult over him, good brother of the Southern States; for we have some inklings that many of you, under similar circumstances, would not do much better.†  (source)
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    She had been aware of his preoccupations, whereas he had had no inkling of her intentions.†  (source)
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    All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.†  (source)
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