On my return, I gave Mr. Jacob Perkins, who is now in England, a hint of this plan of condensation, and it has there obtained him great celebrity.

Beyond, a white-tiled bathroom shining through the open door, and another room hinted at beyond that.

Having, with great warmth and earnestness, used these arguments, he concluded, by plainly hinting to his wife that she had always been the apologist of the tailor, in all their disputes; and that she could not be so obstinately blind to the irrefragable reasoning he had urged, if she were not influenced by her old hankering after this fellow, and did not consult his interests in preference to those of her own family.

" At table the young officers, at a sharp hint from Dr. Trendon, conversed on indifferent subjects until the journalist had partaken heartily of what the physician allowed him.

Your invaluable "Hints for the Family," published some time since, seem destined to work a revolution in our domestic economy; as the plans you propose must win the admiration of housekeepers by their extreme simplicity, aside from any other motives to their adoption.

In this season of the year, a few hints on the temperature of the body prior to cold immersion, may not unaptly be furnished.

" The Brahmin then added: "Though our party are the only voyagers of which authentic history affords any testimony, yet it is probable, from obscure hints in some of our most ancient writings in the Sanscrit, that the voyage has been made in remote periods of antiquity; and the Lunarians have a similar tradition.

" "So you can give us no hint as to this woman's identity?"

Adam refuses Eve's hints about neatness, and Eve kicksharder and harder.

The "Biographia Dramatica" informs us that Dekker's "If it be not Good the Devil is in it" is also chiefly taken from the same novel; but this is an error arising out of a hint by Langbaine.

Any one who reads his hints with regard to her contemplated poem "Superstition and Revelation" will know how full and painstaking was the trouble he took to assist his friend.

One day, finding herself alone with Pulin, she threw out dark hints against his wife's character.

I can take a hint without waiting for a church to fall on me.

Hints towards an Essay on Conversation.] WITCHES, AND OTHER NIGHT-FEARS

and that rapacious torment simpered, "No funds," adding sidewise hints toward Anna's jewels, still diligently manoeuvred for, but still somewhere up-stairs in Callender House, sure to go with Anna should Anna go while the manoeuvrers were away.

But when he reflected on the contents of the letter to count Piper, he could not help thinking they were dictated by something more than an enforced gratitude:he remembered too that he promised him the continuation of his friendship, and had given some hints during the conversation, as if time and some accidents, which might possibly happen, might give a turn to his affairs even on Charlotta's account.

More a hint than anything else.

Look here, brother, aren't you hinting around a little? PODKHALYÚZIN.

Cumberland, recognizing the one-sidedness of the first of these positions, announces the principle of universal benevolence, at which Bacon had hinted before him, and in which he is followed by the school of Shaftesbury.

" "Drat the man," said Mrs. BACKUP to herself; "he's a born fool that can't take a hint like that.

He did not, I am sure, deliberately invent what was not true; but he had a very lively imagination, and was capable of amplifying the smallest hints into elaborate theories; his memory was very faulty, and he could construct a whole series of mental pictures which were wholly inconsistent with facts.

A woman, after all, is much like a diplomatic statesman; a hint along certain lines is more to her than a sworn statement.

Of course he will say that he has produced the play and all that sort of thing; but what does that matter, if one can only get one hint out of it?

What wizard hints across them fleet, These heirs of all the town's thick sin, Swift gypsies of the tortuous street, With childhood yet on cheek and chin!