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telltale
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telltale as in:  a telltale sign

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  • A short while later, Lale hears the telltale sounds of movement in the compound.†  (source)
  • Roland gives no telltale sign that he knows what really happened to them.†  (source)
  • He knew he had been turning a blind eye to telltale signs that things were moving in this direction.†  (source)
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  • By the time the snow melted and the rains of spring swept in, every boy in Kabul bore telltale horizontal gashes on his fingers from a whole winter of fighting kites.†  (source)
  • He commed the door closed and checked the telltales.†  (source)
  • On Madam Hooch's whistle, Harry kicked hard into the air and heard the telltale whoosh of the Bludger behind him.†  (source)
  • So-called computermen—programmers, really—of Authority's civil service stood watches in outer read-out room and never went in machines room unless telltales showed misfunction.†  (source)
  • It would have been easy for me to have overlooked the slippage — the telltale signs of mental frailty, whatever they might have been.†  (source)
  • It was only when I took up the parchment to blot it and set it carefully away, that I saw the telltales of the rector's exhausted mind.†  (source)
  • Joe went back inside to search for telltale signs that he had been living there for six months.†  (source)
  • Louis tells me that the gossip of the sailors finds its way aft, and that two of the telltales have been badly beaten by their mates.†  (source)
  • A series of clicks startled her, followed by telltale humming.†  (source)
  • The neighborhood seemed safe to us, but there were telltales of its rough edge.†  (source)
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