CHAPTER IX OLD MAN COYOTE GIVES OUT DARK HINTS A little hint dropped there or here, Is like a seed in spring of year; It sprouts and grows, and none may say How big 'twill be some future day.
He wanted to be near enough to scramble up again at the first hint of Mother Bear's approach.
He felt very brave and bold, but you may be sure that at the same time he was ready to jump and run, as only he can at the least hint of danger.
' But he's never said a word, and when the doctor told me last night that the end might come any time now, I just made up my mind that I'd do what was right and drop a hint to prepare you.
" Rebecca's hair was loosened and falling over her forehead in ruffled waves; her eyes were brilliant, her cheeks crimson; there was a hint of everything in the girl's face,—of sensitiveness and delicacy as well as of ardor; there was the sweetness of the mayflower and the strength of the young oak, but one could easily divine that she was one of "The souls by nature pitched too high, By suffering plunged too low.
It was a child's poetic instinct with a dawning hint of woman's sentiment in it.
There and in the woods back of the pasture he browsed, but at the first hint of the coming of another day, Lightfoot turned back, and when his friend, the farmer, came out early in the morning to milk the cows, there was Lightfoot back in the open shed.
Sutton's class, which met on Monday nights; she accepted the hint with pleasure, and found a well of spiritual inspiration in Mrs.
An intimation of relief diffused itself through the house like a hint of spring in February.
Beatrice had been used to teach in the afternoon school, but she had recently advanced her labours from the afternoon to the morning in response to a hint that if she did so the force of her influence and example might lessen the chronic dearth of morning teachers.
Hint, allusion, comment, went round the circle, but all so broken, so dependent on references to persons not named, or circumstances not defined, that listen as intently as I would—and I did listen now with a fated interest—I could make out no more than that some scheme was on foot, in which this ghostly Justine Marie—dead or alive—was concerned.
Once I ventured to hint as much.
To say anything on the subject, to hint at my discovery, had not suited my habits of thought, or assimilated with my system of feeling.
Peg Bowen's hint had faded from our minds and we had never put much faith in it.
It seemed to Anne, for a fleeting moment, that there was even a veiled hint of hostility in it.
" This hint was enough to bind our hands.
She wouldn't understand the hint, but followed me to a sideboard, where I went to lay my bonnet, and importuned me in a whisper to give her directly what I had brought.
And not to give me one hint of how she has been these three days!
I obeyed the hint; but Mrs.
"It was no hint that your company was superfluous; we didn't care whether you kept with us or not; I merely thought Heathcliff's talk would have nothing entertaining for your ears.
