20 Metaphors for indication

The doctor said that the remarkable and hopeful indication about Dorn's condition was a gradual daily gain in strength and a decline in the duration and violence of his bad spells.

Another odd indication of Johnson's regard for good manners, so far as his lights would take him, was the extreme disgust with which he often referred to a certain footman in Paris, who used his fingers in place of sugar-tongs.

The only indications of old age were his long white hair and long white moustaches.

Here the first indication of the trouble is the appearance of an inflammatory swelling, confined usually to one side, but extending sometimes to the whole of the coronet.

The first indication of approach to the fortifications was the sight of piles of stones heaped into walls four or five feet high, pierced with loopholes, and visible on every projecting point of the cliffs along the northern side, from most of which a pebble could be snapped down upon the road.

In a few hours the earth is levelled; all the indications remaining of the ordinary log dwellings are a few snow-banks with a row of dark posts from which smoke is emitted, showing that there are human habitations underneath.

The only indication I could perceive of a consciousness of my being there, and of their hearing what I said, was an occasional faint smile of incredulity.

The only indication, however, of this resentment was the appellation which she now bestowed upon her niece.

I think he said the best indication of small pockets was an iron stain, but I could never get the run of miner's talk enough to feel instructed for pocket hunting.

But the indication given by facial expression is mainly the product of the life that has been lived, and tells something of the part that the hidden emotions have played on the body.

To show that the above indication of the savage state is not an index of individual feeling, but of 'public opinion,' it is sufficient to say, that it appears to be a standing advertisement in the Charleston Mercury, the leading political paper of South Carolina, the organ of the Honorables John C. Calhoun, Robert Barnwell Rhett, Hugh S. Legare, and others regarded as the elite of her statesmen and literati.

But the worst indication was them flowers she wore on her bosom every dayOld Heck bought 'em!"

The indication, then, is a bar shoe.

The only appartently authentic indication of their discovery, that I am aware of, is the pillar bearing the name of John III.

The pleasant indications of his surroundings must have been a great solace to the blind old man.

"The strongest indication, however, was the way Deever secured testimony.

The first clear indication of this was the sound of a clock striking.

A rough indication of the amount of social and moral progress is the decrease in the number of convicts in England, from about 50,000 at the accession of Victoria to less than 6000 at her death.

The only indications of recent occupation were a pile of kegs at the rear of the house and near-by a heap of freshly opened tin cans.

The Early British inhabitants were more inclined to the hill-tops than the hollows, if the innumerable indications of their settlements be any guide, and there is every reason for believing that many of the hollows in the folds of the heathery moorlands were rarely visited by man.

20 Metaphors for  indication