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- But she was still dazed by what she had learned about the nefarious goings-on in the squares, and as she drove around them this sunny noontime in May, she did a little timid sleuthing.† (source)
- The truck?" asked Jimmy, sleuthing.† (source)
- She hugged her and promised to let her know about the results of her sleuthing.† (source)
- Jane's sleuthing efforts had completely failed.† (source)
- On it was written: Dear Miss Sleuth, or, to be more exact, Miss Burglar.† (source)
- "Good sleuthing takes practice," he continued.† (source)
- After Tepper had revealed all the government's super sleuthing, I figured they were still spying on me.† (source)
- Supersleuth!† (source)
- His sleuthing had brought Lettie as close to her true ancestors as any efforts so far, but there was simply not enough hard evidence to tie up the loose ends.† (source)
- Indeed, it continues to this day, as historians and amateur sleuths alike debate a never-ending list of conspiracy theories.† (source)
- Eventually, and after a great deal of sleuthing, the police got hold of the rumor circulating in Churchill to the effect that I was a Secret Service agent who had been sent to spy on the floating Russian bases at the pole, and they so reported to Ottawa, adding that they did not like being made mock of, and the next time the Department wanted something found, it had better be honest with them.† (source)
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- The boy-sleuth.† (source)
- "The truth is, we need to brush up on our sleuthing skills," said Vee.† (source)
- And after you do some sleuthing tonight, the facts will back me up.† (source)
- And like all science, the best approach is to learn by sleuthing.† (source)
- Familiarity Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity.† (source)
- Not to mention, this particular sleuthing job had nothing to do with biology.† (source)
- Highly doubtful, given that if Vee was involved, the sleuthing would likely take an illegal turn.† (source)
- But Baker is so fond of half-truths and deception that it's impossible to know if he is traveling to Washington as a sort of super-sleuth, handpicked by Stanton to find Lincoln's killers, or if he is traveling to Washington to find and kill Booth before the actor can detail Secretary Stanton's role in the conspiracy.† (source)
- Time to do some real sleuthing.† (source)
- 'Brilliant Danny,' said Favell: 'becoming quite a sleuth in your old age, aren't you?† (source)
- Here comes our American sleuth, Mr. Hardman.† (source)
- You're the fashionable private sleuth, aren't you?† (source)
- The population of Great Britain turned itself into an army of amateur sleuths.† (source)
- The plague has put an effective stop to police inquiries, sleuthings, warrants of arrest, and so forth.† (source)
- Aunt Bessie Smail sleuthed out this anarchy.† (source)
- And the sleuth-hounds of the law, the paid fighting animals of society, with telephone, and telegraph, and special train, clung to his trail night and day.† (source)
- Duane had never dreamed of any sleuth-hound tendency in his nature, but now he felt something like one.† (source)
- All the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was possible to conceive.† (source)
- Thenardier intuitively felt that Javert was still there; the man spied upon has a scent which never deceives him; it was necessary to fling a bone to that sleuth-hound.† (source)
- Like sleuth-hounds too The Fates pursue.† (source)
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