With this slight clue they were led towards a vineyard.

He gave no hint to anybody, but left the country without leaving the faintest clue concerning his destination behind him.

It was the fact that the burglary Hill had arranged with Birchill took place on the night Sir Horace was killed that had given rise to the false clues which had misled the police.

Every man might take orders as an inspired interpreter, with an infallible clue to the mind of the Spirit, if he only understood the dialect of his own neighborhood!

How Bob Henderson got track of his mother's people and what steps were necessary before he could discover a definite clue, have been related in the second volume of the series, entitled, "Betty Gordon in Washington; or Strange Adventures in a Great City.

It was an axiom of Crewe's that a detective never knew when some old scrap of information or some trifling article of some dead and forgotten crime might not afford a valuable clue.

With the reserve natural to him, he has left but little clue to the motives and feelings under which he acted.

He was thinking the same thingthinking, too, that here was at least a clue, a real tangible clue.

With candid camera clues by Henry Clay Gibson.

Indeed, the premenstrual period furnishes a direct clue to the dominating internal secretion in a woman.

The unfinished clue, by Georgette Heyer.

By dint of study, and by putting together sundry entries that at first sight might not be supposed to have any connection with each other, the present possessor of that chest had obtained what he deemed to be very sufficient clues to his uncle's two great secrets.

There were not even any satisfactory clues.

Mrs. Buxton strove to bring her to a sense of the beauty of completeness, and the relation which qualities and objects bear to each other; but in all her striving she retained hold of the golden clue of sympathy.

Blindly seeking for a helpful clue, Welcoming no matter what suggestion, I have lately sounded one or two Leading doctors on this vital question; But they think I'll have to be trepanned If I wish effectively to modify the structure of my pineal gland Or of my pituitary body.

Hidden away among the back pages once more he encountered the golden-haired-girl story, and although one paper featured it a bit because of some imaginary clue, the others treated it casually, making public the information that the body still lay at the Morgue, a silent, irritating thing of mystery.

I askeda question which gave her some such imperfect clue to my thoughts as I had found to hers.

To name is to reveal; it is the inevitable clue, and our only hope lies in ignoring them, in order that they may ignore us.

But he saw that Rawlins out of the mass of apparently inexplicable clues had extracted this material one and would follow it desperately no matter who was hurt; and Robinson was behind him.

The fact that Bob Hardy was a witness to what she had supposed was a mere accidental meeting gave her an instinctive clue to the identity of the man, and her cheeks flushed with shame as she connected him in her thoughts with that insulting proposition of the detective.

The last lines of this perfervid article, give an instructive clue.

He says: 'The thoughts and principles of modern Christianity are attached to intellectual clues which run back through far pre-Christian ages to the very origin of human civilisation, perhaps even of human existence.'

It affects a system without having any intelligible clue to one; and instead of unfolding a principle in various and striking lights, repeats the same conclusions till they become flat and insipid.

All Gray's Eastern connections were immediately communicated with by telegraph, in the forlorn hope of finding some internal clue.

Usually he has no knowledge of them in any abstract form; it is only when he looks back upon the course his life has taken, that he becomes aware of having been always led on by themas though they formed an invisible clue which he had followed unawares.