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  • I don't know that there would have been much more communication had our mother lived—though she did tell me never to wear "pointy bras"; they were "too suggestive."†   (source)
  • The keening language, so precise yet so suggestive; blood tests for "occult" presences.†   (source)
  • He might be thinking she was talking to him in code, suggestively conveying her taste for the full-blooded and sensual.†   (source)
  • He compiled lists of old words too — words of a precision and suggestiveness that no longer had a meaningful application in today's world, or toady's world, as Jimmy sometimes deliberately misspelled it on his term papers.†   (source)
  • A gray wool skirt and a thin blue sweater cling suggestively to her sides.†   (source)
  • A hint of a shared conspiracy touched the corners of his lips, something too suggestive to go unnoticed by Pearl.†   (source)
  • N o. Dart looked at Tamar, raising his eyebrows suggestively.†   (source)
  • The archers grinned suggestively; the men laughed again.†   (source)
  • Crotchless panties, nightgowns—very suggestive stuff.†   (source)
  • He trailed off suggestively.†   (source)
  • Only in the lower right corner of the painting is there anything even remotely suggestive of trouble: a pair of legs askew as they disappear into the water.†   (source)
  • Now the look the guard gave Zeitoun was suggestive, even lewd.†   (source)
  • He points suggestively at his rear quarter-panel.†   (source)
  • Then, reading the clipping again, he noticed something suggestive: Angela Ford from John Ford.†   (source)
  • He said suggestively, wagging his eyebrows again.†   (source)
  • But when the new round of jeers and whistles was over, an impassive Fermina Daza read it again, in her hoarse, suggestive voice, and amazement reigned after the first line.†   (source)
  • The fragment, however, is extremely suggestive.†   (source)
  • And then they would leave us in our room, flashing back knowing, oddly suggestive smiles as they closed the door behind them.†   (source)
  • I've asked you about the course of your day, how you spent your afternoon, and at no point did you tell us that you stopped at the chandlery to purchase yourself a new battery, at no point did you say anything suggestive of time spent purchasing or finding a new battery.†   (source)
  • Then I said suggestively, "You ever thought of opening a garage?"†   (source)
  • We call them ekubo because they have a dimple in the top with a tiny red circle in the center; some people think they look very suggestive.†   (source)
  • A short, suggestive silence follows, and then the connection is cut.†   (source)
  • As a rule, we are no longer allowed to see anything suggestive of horror.†   (source)
  • His suits fitted as though he had borrowed them from a stout friend, and his face, seldom suggestive of his profession, was now not at all so; it could have been that of an ascetic absorbed in occult pursuits.†   (source)
  • The guy eyes me up and down suggestively before opening the door.†   (source)
  • And she carried him, as the sea will carry a boat: with a slow, rocking and rising and falling motion, barely suggestive of the violence of the deep.†   (source)
  • Faris leers, glancing between us suggestively.†   (source)
  • Despite his best efforts, he couldn't stop thinking about Katie's earlier suggestive remark.†   (source)
  • …the ward bigger than ever, spilled a bucket of mop water under the Nurses' Station door, laid a pat of butter square on the toe of the least black boy's white suede shoes without the black boy noticing, and smothered giggles all through lunch while it melted to show a color Harding referred to as a "most suggestive yellow,"-bigger than ever, and each time he brushed close by a student nurse she gave a yip and rolled her eyes and pitter-patted off down the hall, rubbing her flank.†   (source)
  • I didn't bother to whimper suggestively.†   (source)
  • Very suggestive.†   (source)
  • A more suggestive comment could hardly have been made.†   (source)
  • For Adam the trigger was a glance at a gas station from a man he instantly knew was a dealer—a suggestive look that said, "You need something?"†   (source)
  • The next girl clomped down the runway in torn jeans and combat boots, tossing her hair and gyrating suggestively, grinning out at us.†   (source)
  • Drew turned up the well-bred charm and turned down the suggestiveness as soon as we walked into the house.†   (source)
  • Ridley dipped her fingers into a dark brown sauce in the gravy boat next to the bird I hoped wasn't a peacock, and licked it off her fingers suggestively.†   (source)
  • And it is well that the teacher should study something of it, partly because of its suggestive-ness in many parts of his work, and partly to be on guard against the exaggerated statements of extremists, and the uncritical advocacy of freedom from all discipline, based upon them.†   (source)
  • The bad ones flirted, wore tight miniskirts, and made suggestive comments.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the incident is not worth recording [ Josiah wrote], as there is really no way of getting upon paper the suggestiveness it had to a witness…… The flash of old sentiment was startling from its utter unexpectedness.†   (source)
  • I read somewhere that the woman who posed for it was three months pregnant at the time and that it was shaving cream, not whipped cream, she was suggestively dipping into her mouth.†   (source)
  • "Well," Mrs. Browne was beginning to blush, "it's just that it's a bit suggestive, don't you think?†   (source)
  • Again that chuckle, more defined and louder but still somehow intimate and suggestive, a chuckle that said, I know something you don't know.†   (source)
  • A brunette in a black dress with skin so white she looks like a vampire leans into him suggestively.†   (source)
  • MARTHA (Suggestive) I'll bet not.†   (source)
  • Not that there was anything suggestive in Nia's windows.†   (source)
  • I did not return the look with equal measure or with any measure of faith in his basic premise that we shared some immensely suggestive linkage of soul and temperament.†   (source)
  • Her skin was gray, and her dress was brown; the combined effect was suggestive of some sort of enormous, dusky vegetable that had been uprooted and unwisely endowed with teeth.†   (source)
  • I don't want to point, but I do feel I have a duty, you know, to report Red Leather Break-dancing Jacket to the authorities, or at least to the Meet Your Party booth attendant, because he DOES look very odd in that jacket, and he IS still staring at me, really rudely, or at least suggestively, like he still "Over there," I say, nodding my head toward Red Leather Break-dancing Jacket.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, your mama," Tony said, and thrust his hips, legs apart in a suggestive way.†   (source)
  • It was broken only by the sound of Franny blowing her nose—an abandoned, protracted, "congested" blow, suggestive of a patient with a four-day-old head cold.†   (source)
  • …turned upon the irony of civilizations being consolidated by violent and powerful conquerors who end up commissioning the artists and the architects, he began to associate the sight of a mother bird feeding its young with the image of the honey bee, an image deeply lodged in poetic tradition and always suggestive of the ideal of an industrious, harmonious, nurturing commonwealth: The bees build in the crevices Of loosening masonry, and there The mother birds bring grubs and flies.†   (source)
  • Deaths and disclosures, universal and particular, denouements both unexpected and inexorable, transvestite melodrama on all levels including the suggestive.†   (source)
  • But there is one analogy which is-well, suggestive and helpful.†   (source)
  • , because of its rather blatant suggestiveness.†   (source)
  • She had had her hair done the day before by a hairdresser who, after lightening it with streaks of bleach, had chosen an upsweep suggestive of a Hollywood sex goddess.†   (source)
  • You could stay a very long time at Faye's before you would hear an ugly or suggestive word spoken.†   (source)
  • The hunchback nodded and shook his bowl suggestively.†   (source)
  • The old woman's smile was broad and toothless and suggestive.†   (source)
  • Suggestively, I lifted my hands, bound together at the wrists.†   (source)
  • He paws at his own cheeks suggestively, unable to peg Hiro's ethnic group.†   (source)
  • Their slips show at the bottoms of their skirts, slips of unusual, suggestive colors.†   (source)
  • "You ready to shag?" she asked suggestively.†   (source)
  • The hands were folded upon his broad chest in a gesture suggestive of modesty or piety or both.†   (source)
  • Anything other than white is suggestive.†   (source)
  • There's nothing coy or suggestive in her tone.†   (source)
  • I like this word besotted, suggestive as it is of sogginess, soppiness, flies drunk on syrup.†   (source)
  • In 1933, the noted English climber Frank Smythe observed "two curious looking objects A I R floating in the sky" directly above him at 27,000 feet: " [One] possessed what appeared to be squat underdeveloped wings, and the other a protuberance suggestive of a beak.†   (source)
  • He had deep-set, brooding eyes, and his face was more thoughtful, more solemn, than his younger brother's, a face as suggestive of early maturity as his brother's was of lingering boyishness.†   (source)
  • Then with the finely attuned senses of his brotherhood, the Count noticed something suggestive out of the corner of his eye.†   (source)
  • The assumption was that Annie had said things during her original interrogation which were extremely suggestive, perhaps even damning; her attorney had managed to keep the transcript of that interrogation out of the trial record.†   (source)
  • Various family members could see this as either slapstick buffoonery or as quite suggestive slapstick buffoonery.†   (source)
  • He flashes them a nice grin, has a look at Hiro and Eliot, gives them a highly suggestive, thrusting thumbs-up geshire, and then struts up and down the length of the boat one time, swapping high fives with his merry men.†   (source)
  • Those two words may just be hyperbole, but coming in the first two sentences of the story, they feel suggestive.†   (source)
  • That little tableaux, for all its innocence, was somehow suggestive of exactly what had been bearing down on the Count's soul.†   (source)
  • But the suggestive style with which the young man had drawn the people was sharply contrasted by the level of detail with which he had drawn the room itself.†   (source)
  • Rushdie asks outright if birth inevitably involves a fall, while Weldon poses questions that are equally suggestive.†   (source)
  • Standing in formal configuration, the Japanese and Russian delegates all wore high white collars, moustaches, bow ties, and expressions suggestive of some grand sense of accomplishment—having just concluded with the stroke of a pen the war that their likes had started in the first place.†   (source)
  • Dickens, who could be very suggestive, was aware that his novels were often read around the family breakfast table, and he wanted to protect children from anything luridly sexual, as well as to provide wives with plausible deniability.†   (source)
  • And now, as she slips beneath the bedcovers, this once haughty figure offers a smile suggestive of patience, tenderness, even gratitude—traits that are mirrored almost exactly in the smile of her former adversary as he hangs the white jacket of the Boyarsky on the back of a chair and begins to unbutton his shirt!†   (source)
  • Above him, dangling past the doorframe from the left, was one hand, fingers gripping a bright blue fork, wiggling it around suggestively, as if it was some kind of signal, spelling out messages in supersecret spy code.†   (source)
  • When he escorted her, she was receptive to his verbal sallies, a complacent object of his suggestive caresses as he linked arms with her and held her a little closer than was appropriate.†   (source)
  • He'd watched two whole games—thankfully so absorbed in his thoughts that he was totally oblivious to Emmett's suggestive jokes that got more pointed and less football-related with each aside—and the after-game commentaries, and then the news, not moving until Seth had reminded him of the time.†   (source)
  • George showed up in the Health Room, and Sukeena immediately began dancing in a most fluid, provocative and suggestive manner.†   (source)
  • I won't have to work, and then we can be together all day"—He snakes out an arm, wrapping it around my waist and pulling me to him—"and all night, too," he adds with a suggestive wag of his eyebrows.†   (source)
  • After a night of "getting friendly" with Cindy, however, when she pressed up against Adam and suggestively said, "You wanna get high?" his response was, "Well, yeah.†   (source)
  • The boy lifts an eyebrow suggestively.†   (source)
  • Don't touch her, don't tell her dirty jokes or make suggestive comments, don't even swear in her presence, and don't drink or smoke around her.†   (source)
  • She was a fine girl, but her face was suggestive of a variety of memories, all of them bad and all of them permanent.†   (source)
  • Your wife, I signed it "Ellen Rimbauer," as I have found deliberate use of my formal name to be suggestive of a strong attitude on my part and quite a successful technique where negotiations with John are concerned.†   (source)
  • I knew the whole thing was a farce, that Ridley was bringing this party to life with every suggestive lick, and Lena knew it, too.†   (source)
  • She batted her eyes suggestively.†   (source)
  • "Doesn't that fabric chafe around your bottom?" she heard Wilhelmine ask her now, mezza voce and with a slight quaver that made everything more insinuating and flirtatious than her suggestive eyes, or the words that had caused her at first to take warning: I'll bet you don't even know.†   (source)
  • After all, a Jew and a Catholic in a "suicide pact" (as the Daily News termed it, in a garishly illustrated story on page three), unmarried lovers dwelling in sin, suggestive beauty and good looks, the instigator of the tragedy a young man with a history of psychotic episodes, and so on—this was the stuff of superscandal in the year 1947.†   (source)
  • From this moment of slippery intimacy—smearing as I did the lotion across her shoulders and down her back to the beginning cleft of her buttocks, a tiny nook suggestively fair of hue, then with fluttering fingers in the air above the rump and on further to the mysterious regions between her thighs, ashine with sweat—that afternoon remains in memory a gauzy but pleasure-charged extravaganza.†   (source)
  • You have drawn my attention to a curious and suggestive point.†   (source)
  • "All very suggestive questions," said Dr. Thompson.†   (source)
  • Suggestive, that, is it not, my good Japp?†   (source)
  • I find not a subtle mind; not an imaginative mind; not a suggestive mind.†   (source)
  • Then he said: "It's rather suggestive, isn't it?"†   (source)
  • I would like first to mention certain points which appear to me suggestive.†   (source)
  • That would indeed be interesting-and highly suggestive.†   (source)
  • Steve hummed a monotonous, suggestive tune, and writhed sensually.†   (source)
  • 3 CERTAIN SUGGESTIVE POINTS It was quite a quarter of an hour before anyone spoke.†   (source)
  • The manner of her death was particularly suggestive.†   (source)
  • Every one made a sound suggestive of agreement.†   (source)
  • And her Christian name, as I said just now, is decidedly suggestive.†   (source)
  • The word "escape" was suggestive.†   (source)
  • Sniggering furtively, they talked suggestively about the HoochyKoochy: Eugene understood it was a dance.†   (source)
  • His outstretched hand was suggestive.†   (source)
  • I heard the voice again, suggestive, rather inquisitive, in the voice of that woman I had called upon who lived the other side of Kerrith, and I saw her eye too, dubious, considering, taking in my clothes from top to toe, wondering, with that swift downward glance given to all brides, if I was going to have a baby.†   (source)
  • They lack suggestive power.†   (source)
  • His handling of the pot was suggestive of the laziness and sloppiness of his morning egg in the kitchen; he dropped the hypo in, fished it up again with tongs, and was ready.†   (source)
  • She sank down on the couch with an easy motion, vaguely suggestive of a flutter and preening as when a bird touches a bough, and took a sip, and lifted her head as if to let the liquor trickle into her throat.†   (source)
  • Then a marimba began to play, tinkly and repetitive, a firework exploded, and Christ danced into the arena - danced and postured with a bleeding painted face, up and down, up and down, grimacing like a prostitute, smiling and suggestive.†   (source)
  • THE SIMPLICITY OF THE ORIGIN STORIES of the undeveloped folk mythologies stands in contrast to the profoundly suggestive myths of the cosmogonic cycle.†   (source)
  • High sprays of foam tossed into the air and the wind was heavy with the damp, suggestive smell offish.†   (source)
  • And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.†   (source)
  • But I was the only one of the principals to hear and I took a good look at him to see how much harm he really meant me and to what extent he was kidding, the handsome teameo, slick-haired, with certainly horny eyes of his own and a suggestive pad of a chin.†   (source)
  • When she returned now, summer by summer, she met with her innocent and unwitting smile all of his obscene innuendoes, his heavily suggestive threats, his bitter revelations behind her back.†   (source)
  • Your words are very suggestive, doctor.†   (source)
  • Guy Doak had a trim cocky figure of medium height, black hair, bright dark eyes, a pale, very smooth oval face, somehow suggestive, Eugene thought, of a fish's belly, with somewhat unhappily full jaws which made his lower features seem larger than his upper.†   (source)
  • Insanely tickled at the cadences of his agreement, the earnest placidity and oblivion of the old woman, and the extravagant pretense of the whole situation, his face flooded with wild exultancy, he would croon in a fat luscious bawdily suggestive voice: "Y-ah-s?†   (source)
  • Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive-for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge-bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's mother, the detective methods of M. Hardman, the suggestion of M. MacQueen that Ratchett himself destroyed the charred note we found, Princess Dragomiroff's Christian name, and a grease spot on a Hungarian passport.†   (source)
  • Her gestures, her poses, moues and attitudes were sensuous and suggestive.†   (source)
  • They were suggestive of unnumbered thousands.†   (source)
  • Hudnall's giant body lay, half nude, in grotesque and terrible suggestiveness.†   (source)
  • "I will soon show you I am not," he said, in a tone suggestive of a crisis.†   (source)
  • He followed them with a keen, suggestive glance.†   (source)
  • She had not really appreciated the clergyman's wit, nor the suggestive twitterings of Miss Alan.†   (source)
  • A janitor was closing the windows, very firmly and suggestively.†   (source)
  • For here was this girl, and she was approaching him in this direct and suggestive way.†   (source)
  • The too suggestive incident, entirely of her making, nearly broke down Jude.†   (source)
  • This busy, distracting, suggestive scene was shut out.†   (source)
  • He reached in his pocket suggestively, but Amory snorted, and, taking the girl's arm, turned away.†   (source)
  • 'I was struck by the suggestive truth of his words.†   (source)
  • Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is a suggestive one.†   (source)
  • It doesn't mean anything though, as anybody can see," persisted Belknap, suggestively.†   (source)
  • "Ain't they ever goin' to open up?" queried a hoarse voice, suggestively.†   (source)
  • The point about the signature is very suggestive—in fact, we may call it conclusive.†   (source)
  • The picture you have just drawn is suggestive of a rather too overwhelming contrast.†   (source)
  • Oh, I admit that the chain of evidence—the coincidences—are really suggestive.†   (source)
  • "Haven't you a WORD?" asked his companion, with her suggestive smile coming back.†   (source)
  • There were some pathetically suggestive dumb witnesses present.†   (source)
  • The subject was a suggestive one to me, and I thought about it in silence.†   (source)
  • It was suggestive somewhat as a picture in outlines.†   (source)
  • Her face was round and rosy, with a healthful downy softness, suggestive of a ripe peach.†   (source)
  • His capacious waistcoat was suggestive of a large heart underneath.†   (source)
  • This suggestiveness was lost upon Catherine, who repeated her violent inquiry.†   (source)
  • Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy.†   (source)
  • "Such as fellows going to college, hey?" cut in Laurie, with suggestive laugh.†   (source)
  • I can never bring you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.†   (source)
  • Familiarly then came back to Dale the quiet, intent suggestiveness of the Beemans in moments foreboding trial.†   (source)
  • The bray of a lazy burro broke the afternoon quiet, and it was comfortingly suggestive of the drowsy farmyard, and the open corrals, and the green alfalfa fields.†   (source)
  • I was so slow to find anything that he had plenty of time, after a minute, to continue with his suggestive but inconclusive smile: "You know, my dear, that for a fellow to be with a lady ALWAYS—!"†   (source)
  • Below the garden a green field lush with clover sloped down to the hollow where the brook ran and where scores of white birches grew, upspringing airily out of an undergrowth suggestive of delightful possibilities in ferns and mosses and woodsy things generally.†   (source)
  • They saw the robin carry food to his mate two or three times, and it was so suggestive of afternoon tea that Colin felt they must have some.†   (source)
  • All of them were conscious of the solemn dignity that flowed from him, of his achievement, fragmentary, suggestive and surpassed.†   (source)
  • Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive, and wild—and perhaps with as profound a meaning as the sound of bells in a Christian country.†   (source)
  • The variance is suggestive of an almost complete separation of passion and intellect, as though thought and emotion were each isolated in its own sphere through some violence of will-power.†   (source)
  • The house of the president had been massed with palms suggestive of polite undertaking parlors, and in the library, a ten-foot room with a globe and the portraits of Whittier and Martha Washington, the student orchestra was playing "Carmen" and "Madame Butterfly."†   (source)
  • 'In the matter of sepulture, for instance, I could see no signs of crematoria nor anything suggestive of tombs.†   (source)
  • He is in his shirt sleeves, with a vest figured with faded gold horseshoes, and a pink-striped shirt, suggestive of peppermint candy.†   (source)
  • But his general aspect and manner were so suggestive of an education and career incongruous with his naval function that when not actively engaged in it he looked a man of high quality, social and moral, who for reasons of his own was keeping incog.†   (source)
  • A suggestive name, isn't it?†   (source)
  • "What—" said Dawes, suggestively.†   (source)
  • The facial part projected, forming something dimly suggestive of a muzzle, and the huge half-open mouth showed as big white teeth as I had ever seen in a human mouth.†   (source)
  • It suddenly occurred to her to try persuasion; and accordingly she whispered in his ear, with as much firmness and decision as she could summon— "Let us walk on, darling," at the same time taking him suggestively by the arm.†   (source)
  • His closeness to her was so suggestive that he trembled, and turned his face away with a shy instinct to prevent her recognizing him, though as she had never once seen him she could not possibly do so; and might very well never have heard even his name.†   (source)
  • Well, if you insist on asking me why I behave in this absurd way, I can only reply that you asked me to, and that in any case my treatment of the subject may be valid for the artist, amusing to the amateur, and at least intelligible and therefore possibly suggestive to the Philistine.†   (source)
  • The Martian who had been overthrown crawled tediously out of his hood, a small brown figure, oddly suggestive from that distance of a speck of blight, and apparently engaged in the repair of his support.†   (source)
  • To Philip her smile was an abominable leer, and the suggestive glitter of her eyes filled him with horror.†   (source)
  • Madeline was amazed, then a little frightened, for that stealthy walk from tree to tree was suggestive of secrecy, if nothing worse.†   (source)
  • With a few suggestive phrases, he could turn a prosaic everyday scene into stark reality, so that they all shivered when he now spoke of the ice-cold water in the sponge that you pressed to the back of your neck on such a morning—and called it holy.†   (source)
  • At times the Great North Road accompanied her, more suggestive of infinity than any railway, awakening, after a nap of a hundred years, to such life as is conferred by the stench of motor-cars, and to such culture as is implied by the advertisements of antibilious pills.†   (source)
  • This garment, which appeared to be made for a person of prodigious size, had evidently seen long and hard wear, and its greenish-black folds gave out a moist sawdusty smell suggestive of prolonged sessions against bar-room walls.†   (source)
  • She looked down the long table, studying its occupants one by one, from Gus Trenor, with his heavy carnivorous head sunk between his shoulders, as he preyed on a jellied plover, to his wife, at the opposite end of the long bank of orchids, suggestive, with her glaring good-looks, of a jeweller's window lit by electricity.†   (source)
  • Adelaida mentioned a watercolour that she would much like to show him, and explained that she would either send it by Colia, or bring it herself the next day—which to the prince seemed very suggestive.†   (source)
  • The jailer finished by lifting himself a-tip-toe with an imaginary halter, at the same time making a gurgling noise in his throat suggestive of suffocation.†   (source)
  • Back at the hotel he felt better, but as he walked into the barber-shop, intending to get a head massage, the smell of the powders and tonics brought back Axia's sidelong, suggestive smile, and he left hurriedly.†   (source)
  • For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes.†   (source)
  • It needed but this to complete the grim suggestiveness of the barren waste, the chilling wind, and the darkling sky.†   (source)
  • The soldier once more spoke; in a tone of suggestive dubiety addressing at once his associates and Captain Vere: "Nobody is present—none of the ship's company, I mean—who might shed lateral light, if any is to be had, upon what remains mysterious in this matter.†   (source)
  • The long pointed features, narrow eye, and smirk of the one, so suggestive of merciless treachery; the bill-hook nose, large teeth, and bold eye of the other suggesting arrogance to the point of ferocity, haunt the beholder afterwards in his dreams.†   (source)
  • He had been before in drawing-rooms hung with red damask, with pictures "of the Italian school"; what struck him was the way in which Medora Manson's shabby hired house, with its blighted background of pampas grass and Rogers statuettes, had, by a turn of the hand, and the skilful use of a few properties, been transformed into something intimate, "foreign," subtly suggestive of old romantic scenes and sentiments.†   (source)
  • They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.†   (source)
  • This air, ladies and gentlemen, this day's foehn air so rich in character, so tenderly enervating, suggestive and reminiscent of spring's fragrance—we should not breathe it in merely so that in the form of—I implore you: we should not do it.†   (source)
  • The distant Sierra Madres were clearer, bluer, less smoky and suggestive of mirage than she had ever seen them.†   (source)
  • Now, this is a most suggestive fact.†   (source)
  • "Go away!" cried I. There was something very suggestive of a dog in the cringing attitude of the creature.†   (source)
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