" "That must be a hint for me to take Mr.
Cadwallader must decide on another match for Sir James, and having made up her mind that it was to be the younger Miss Brooke, there could not have been a more skilful move towards the success of her plan than her hint to the baronet that he had made an impression on Celia's heart.
I seemed to see in them a hint of mockery; it was true that Stroeve had the head of the husband who is deceived.
I looked at her mouth for an expression that could give me a clue to what she felt; I watched her eyes for some tell-tale flash, some hint of dismay or bitterness; I scanned her brow for any passing line that might indicate a settling emotion.
He would write the invitations; and he would take care to mention the leading part he had taken in the fight, and how he had laid the Chief Weasel flat; and he would hint at his adventures, and what a career of triumph he had to tell about; and on the fly-leaf he would set out a sort of a programme of entertainment for the evening—something like this, as he sketched it out in his head:— SPEECH.
Morland allowed it to pass even without a hint; but when a third night's rest had neither restored her cheerfulness, improved her in useful activity, nor given her a greater inclination for needlework, she could no longer refrain from the gentle reproof of, "My dear Catherine, I am afraid you are growing quite a fine lady.
Perhaps, if particularly questioned, she might just give an idea—just distantly hint at it—but not more.
" Catherine was saved the embarrassment of attempting an answer by the entrance of the general, whose smiling compliments announced a happy state of mind, but whose gentle hint of sympathetic early rising did not advance her composure.
If able to suggest a hint, Isabella could never understand it.
Catherine longed to give her a hint of it, to put her on her guard, and prevent all the pain which her too lively behaviour might otherwise create both for him and her brother.
She liked the delicious hint of fragrance, as some aerial benediction, above her every time she moved.
I gave him a good broad hint.
He was trying his best to keep the old man from getting the faintest hint of who the Spaniard might be, and yet his tongue seemed determined to get him into trouble in spite of all he could do.
If you could come over on a log to go to your funeral, you could have come over and give me a hint some way that you warn't dead, but only run off.
" All who got this vague hint were cautioned to "be mum and wait.
Researchers thought that this was just an experimental error in older measurements, but they were open to the idea that maybe it was a hint of more complex physics.
Yet, because the community has been cloistered for so long and has only just begun to seek help from city officials for its internal problems, you won't detect any hint of difficulties unless you reside in Chinatown for a considerable length of time.
Yet, because the community has been cloistered for so long and has only just begun to seek help from city officials for its internal problems, you won't detect any hint of difficulties unless you reside in Chinatown for a considerable length of time.
He added a heap of sauerkraut to give just a hint of sharpness, and a squirt of mustard, made with his own recipe.
Handy hint: Make a date today with a pal to walk once a week for 50 minutes.
