For there was not one of the Wolverines who did not expect from this aimless traveller of desert seas at the least a leading clue to the riddle that oppressed them.

"Well, it is a clue of a sort," he said.

He read and re-read them, earnestly searching for a fresh clue in the pencilled pages.

Does this fact give you a further clue as to the distinction between the two words?

Spinoza, for instance (above, p. 138), and Simon, a Frenchman whose books were burnt, were pioneers; and the modern criticism of the Old Testament was begun by Astruc (professor of medicine at Paris), who discovered an important clue for distinguishing different documents used by the compiler of the Book of Genesis (1753).

I only make it a condition that you shall not publish the story during my life; that if you show the manuscript or mention the tale in confidence to any one, you will strictly keep my secret; and that if after my death, of which you shall be advised, you do publish it, you will afford no clue by which the donor could be confidently identified.

I have discovered the clue at last.

When Hutcheson replied from Leghorn, and when I discovered where Olinto was employed, I might perhaps follow up the clues from that end.

Lovethe love of our kindthe undying love of a mother for her childrenthe love, so gloriously exhibited lately, of a soldier for his countrythe eternal love between a man and a woman, which counts the world well lostthese are the clues through the wilderness.

Mr. Gervase Henshaw is to look into his brother's affairs and papers while in town, and I am hoping that on his return here he may be able to give some information which will afford a clue on which we can work.

Since the will found under old Brooks' pillow was a forged will, where then was the will he did make, and which Wethered carried away with him in his pocket?" "Stolen, of course," said Polly, "by those who murdered and robbed him; it may have been of no value to them, but they naturally would destroy it, lest it might prove a clue against them.

Whereas, if I lie low, one of two things will happen; either the occasion for my removal (which is only a temporary one) will pass, or he will commit himselfwill put a definite clue into my hands.

" "I have a clue with which to trace Jay," said Mrs. Gustus.

And don't you hope he'll find some clue before his holidays end?

" "And you say he has simply dropped out o' sight?" "That's true; never left a clue behind him.

He shall follow up the clues like a bloodhound, and hang on to them when he's got 'em, like a bulldog.

The entire absence of any ruins within the distance of our journeys (and by the report of the natives there were none in the country round about) made the presence of these cemeteries an archaeological problem to which I obtained no clue until some time later, on the surrender of Niksich.

We almost immediately recognised the brig to be the Argus: it was then within two musket shot: we were extremely impatient to see her clue up her sails; she lowered them at length, and fresh cries of joy rose from our raft.

In the second round of interviews, my first encounter with Rajan, it took this then raw third-year college kid quite some to gauge some clues about the identity of this man shooting across the questions.