Which preposition to use with hints

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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.

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

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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.

from Occurrences 121%

" 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.

for Occurrences 109%

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.

on Occurrences 101%

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

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" 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.

as Occurrences 77%

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

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

on Occurrences 16%

Miscellaneous Hints on the Use of Clothing.

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"Bowditch's Hints for Teachers of Physiology.

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Should we translate the title of Wordsworth's famous ode, "Intimations of Immortality," into "Hints of Deathlessness," it would hiss like an angry gander.

in Occurrences 6%

Mr. SPECTATOR, You have given many Hints in your Papers to the Disadvantage of Persons of your own Sex, who lay Plots upon Women.

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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.

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He nevertheless made notes to Harold, composed the Hints from Horace and the Curse of Minerva, and presumably brooded over, and outlined in his mind, many of his verse romances.

with Occurrences 5%

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.

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

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

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

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In 1805 she published Hints towards forming the Character of a Young Princess.

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

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More a hint than anything else.

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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.

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What says he to this Barrister, and his Hints to the Legislature? Ib.

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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.

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