66 examples of sleuthing in sentences

"You're not a bad sleuth yourself, Hetty," he remarked.

But for this and that, I'd be tempted to think you were sleuthing on the trail of some female fair but faithless.

To his unspeakable disgust the supposed sleuth grinned affably at his supposed quarry and said: "Ah, Hyman!

"Do ye want me to become a sleuth, or engage detectives to track the objects of your erroneous philanthropy?

But Tacitus pursues his victim with the patience of a sleuth-hound; he seems to find a ruthless satisfaction in stripping the soul of its coverings; he treads the floor of hell and watches with equanimity the writhings of the damned.

One can readily pardon the lapses of an honest man, terrified at finding himself in the coils of the police, clinging to the good name of his wife and her family, clutching at any device to throw the sleuth-hounds of the law off the real scent.

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Bright sleuth, Howells!

An A.P.M. who had been sleuthing him for half-a-mile leapt upon him, snatched the pipe and two or three teeth out of his mouth and returned him to France by the next boat.

" "Save me, save me," shrieghed the stranger, "the sleuth hounds are at my heels.

"Tak' your certie o' that my braw callant," said I, "ne'er sail it be tauld o' Jamie Mc-Dougall, that he steeked his door again the puir and hauseless, an the bluidy sleuth hounds be on ye they'se find it ill aneugh I trow to get an inkling o' ye frae me, I'se sune shaw 'em the cauld shouther.

Sleuth-houndsblood-hounds.

But Du Lhut was on his feet again in a moment, and running up and down like a sleuth-hound, noting a hundred things which even Amos would have overlooked.

It was a boisterous night, its inclemency heightened when viewed from the shelter of this friendly roof, one which must defy their sleuth, the chauffeur, had he had the temerity or the stealth to follow them through the forest.

Sherlock the Sleuth keeps himself in fair fettle by prowling round the countryside and trying to restrain the aborigines from pinching what little British material they have not already pinched.

The sleuth-hound instinct of one Frederick is indicated.

Black John does some sleuthing.

Sleuthing in the stacks.

Sleuthing in the stacks.

Black John does some sleuthing.

Sleuthing in the stacks.

Sleuthing in the stacks.

He called himself a Reformer, and he did all his Sleuthing in the line of Duty.

Rosie, who is a reader of books, afterwards said that no sleuth-hounds could have done the thing better.

"But, Mademoiselle," I stammered; for indeed her words and appearance had roused all my worst fears, but also all my instincts of the sleuth-hound scenting his quarry.

66 examples of  sleuthing  in sentences