Hers in reply stuck a sinister note: Oh, so it's like that, is it?

SEE The sinister mark.

The sinister sex.

Erle Stanley Gardner (A); 16Jun66; R387747. Seven sinister sombreros.

Then there suddenly arose another sinister figure which threatened to upset all our calculationsnamely, a well-timed revolt of the railway workmen, calculated to cripple our communications and make the movement of troops and supplies impossible.

At Crévic, the Germans began their sinister work by burning a château which they knew belonged to General Lyautey.

The sunlight was filled with sinister glow; the voices of the rowing men were strange; the whole environment seemed to have changed.

What sinister change came over her when her will was crossed?

And on the surface of the sea sinister destroyers darted about as watchful as the flyers above, ready for any emergency that might arise.

Lenore sensed a terrible, sinister earnestness in him.

This is the age of fraud, imposture, substitution, transmutation, adulteration, abomination, contamination, and many others of the same sinister ending, always excepting purification.

The false entries are in the hand of Hugh, but Stephen's sinister eye and shocking suit of solemn black promptly give him away to the audience, while with a gorgeous fatuity he gives himself away to his uncle by writing out his brother's resignation of the King's Commission (in itself an odd thing to do) in the very hand he had so adroitly practised in order to manipulate the ledger.

The road to Wells runs through a beautiful valley, which, by some sinister inspiration, has been chosen as the site of the town sewage works.

" All doubt of her father's sinister intervention in Jack's disappearance now took the form of certainty in the girl's mind.

KIKI-THE-DEMURE, (with a sinister laugh)

When they reached Cezarades, a distance of not more than nine miles, which had taken them five hours to travel, they were agreeably accommodated for the night in a neat cottage; and the Albanian landlord, in whose demeanour they could discern none of that cringing, downcast, sinister look which marked the degraded Greek, received them with a hearty welcome.

My nephew, without any sinister means, is master of your daughter's affection; and lord Martin, I have authority to tell you, is her aversion."

Then, father, shall we seeke sinister meanes Forbidden by the lawes of God and men?

To sit almost motionless for hours listening, listening intently for every sound, hearing occasional words spoken either in too low tones or too far distant to make them understandable, to record bits of conversation that sounded harmless, yet might have some sinister meaning, became a most laborious task.

They called them Siberian bloodhounds then, but the dog-fanciers got hold of them, and they became, with their sinister obtrusiveness, a feature of the shows; the breed was defined more clearly, and now they are known as Great Danes or Ulms, indifferently.

Somewhere in one of Shorthouse's storiesin The Little Schoolmaster Mark, I thinkhe gives a curious impression of a whirling fantastic crowd of revellers who evoke by their movements some evil pattern in the air around them, and the boy who is standing in their midst sees this dark twisted sinister picture forming against the gorgeous walls and the coloured figures until it blots out the whole scene and plunges him into darkness.

It was true then, and I was in our own castle of Grosbois, and this dreadful man in the snuff-coloured coat, this sinister plotter with the death's-head face, was the man whom I had heard my poor father curse so often, the man who had ousted him from his own property and installed himself in his place.

Sometimes we seem conscious of sinister presences, as though veritably in the abode of evil spirits.

And in the shadow of the buildings, hardly ten feet away but half sheltered by a doorway, stood his sinister pursuer, motionless but alert.

Monsignor Viale, nuncio at Vienna, and Monsignor Sacconi, nuncio at Munich, were assiduous and eager in detailing the sinister reports touching Rome and the Pope, and colored them in such a way as to create an apprehension of schism, the most serious one that could rise for a popeand that pope, too, Pius IX.