They were both leggy chestnuts, with surprising signs of blood' and all the earmarks of sprinters; but in Godwin's trade sharp getaways were probably often necessary.

He had been with Vantine for eight or ten years, and the earmarks of the competent and faithful servant were apparent all over him.

On the way to Glencoe several squads of idling and marching men were passed, all of whom bore the earmarks of the I.W.W. Sight of them made Kurt hug his gun and wonder at himself.

Because in his fullest development he exhibited all the earmarks of the thymus pattern.

Here it is againthe earmark of a crime, and no crimeyet.

Especially if the girl he had earmarked was one of these tough modern thugs, all lipstick and cool, hard, sardonic eyes, as she probably was.

Gussie, during that interview, had, in fine, exhibited all the earmarks of one licked to a custard.

V. indicate; be the sign &c n.. of; denote, betoken; argue, testify &c (evidence) 467; bear the impress &c n.. of; connote, connotate^. represent, stand for; typify &c (prefigure) 511; symbolize. put an indication, put a mark &c n.; note, mark, stamp, earmark; blaze; label, ticket, docket; dot, spot, score, dash, trace, chalk; print; imprint, impress; engrave, stereotype.

It will serve as an example, not only because it has the earmarks of truth,having been told in an offhand way merely as an explanation of the private's insanity,but because it is typical of the kind of incident which in the telling is, nine times out of ten, twisted into atrocious and wholly unrecognizable form.

It may have been sport, but it has all the earmarks of honest toil.

The spondaic ending which made the line linger, usually over some word of emotional content, (l. 158): At levis ille deus, cui semper ad ulciscendum was to Cicero the earmark of this style.

Often the truth sounds untrue, while the lies carry all the earmarks of honesty.

There was absolutely not the slightest earmark of the Negro about them.

The wound-spots long ago have left his shaggy coat, but the earmarks still are there, the ponderous strength, the elephantine dignity.

Mrs. Howard Tate was a Chicago Todd before she became a Toledo Tate, and the family generally affect that conscious simplicity which has begun to be the earmark of American aristocracy.

GERSTAECKER'S LOVE-STORY Gerstaecker, a German traveller, who traversed a part of Australia, has a tale of aboriginal love which also bears the earmarks of fiction.

In other words, although neither had seen the other, there was a feud between the owners of the two estates that had all the earmarks of an ancient romance.

There were about it compromising earmarks which the friend to whom it was sent recognized.

It was only when the man, who had all the earmarks of a gossiping countryman, repeated the question, that I realized Dicky's confusion.

If anything unusually good happens, there's an unusually good man behind it, and he ought to be earmarked for promotion; and if anything unusually bad happens, there's apt to be an unusually bad man behind that, and he's a candidate for a job with another house.

The profits from the sale of programmes should go into the National Exchequer, but should be earmarked for a Pension Fund for the relief of composers on their compulsory retirement at the age of sixty.

And while Alexander P. Dill was a big manan enormous man, one might sayhe had none of the earmarks of a fighting man.

I think Comrade Peck has some of the earmarks of a good manager for our Shanghai office, but I'll have to test him a little further."

His going had all the earmarks of flight.