77 Verbs to Use for the Word clue

I was not aware that I ever gave her the least clue to the fact that I am notin perfect health.

These details, indeed, were never officially made public, since a discreet police force "found no clues"; for Fred Musgrave (of King's Garden), as befitted the dead man's well-to-do brother, had been at no little pains to insure constabulary shortsightedness, in preference to having the nature of Scott Musgrave's recreations unsympathetically aired.

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.

Nevertheless, in the case under notice, some vigilant detective, with a nose as sharp as that of a Spitz-dog, obtained a clue to the arrangements of the counterfeiters.

" "Of this I am aware," said Paul, for he and John Effingham had perused the remainder of the Monday papers together, after the fainting fit of the latter, as soon as his strength would admit; "and Captain Truck is now searching for an old passenger of his, who I think will furnish the clue.

They had seen nothing more of Henshaw who, it seemed, was rather inclined to hold away from them, possibly with a view to avoiding an opportunity of discussing the affair, or because he was occupied in following up some clue he had, or thought he had, got hold of.

The most practised of the three appeared in an assembly of the patricians, which noble and beautiful dames graced with their presence, from which he disappeared in a manner to leave no clue to his motions.

Gosh!why, anybody that's got the least clue, the slightest ideaand there must be somebody'll have a go in for all he

How Bob Henderson got track of his mother's people and what steps were necessary before he could discover a definite clue, have been related in the second volume of the series, entitled, "Betty Gordon in Washington; or Strange Adventures in a Great City.

In his sleep, he dreams that BUMSTEAD examines him closely, with a view to gaining some clue to the mystery of the light behind both their backs; and, on finding the lantern under him, and, studying it profoundly for some time, is suddenly moved to feel along his own back.

V. be uncertain &c adj.; wonder whether. lose the clue, lose the clew, scent; miss one's way.

Again he could only suggest expert help from the policebut this time he added to his suggestion the remark that he understood there was nothing for the police to take hold ofno clue, no signs of foul play.

Presently, however, Dr. Norbury supplied the clue.

The kind of adolescence provides the clue to the kind of maturity, for both are effects of the same endocrine factors.

The journal hinted that it was the result of something which Counsel for the defence had let drop at this trial that Inspector Chippenfield had picked up the clue which had led to Holymead's arrest.

"As yet," he observed, "we have learned little more than the fact, that a child was made to take a false character, without possessing any other clue to the circumstances than is given in the names of the parties, all of whom are evidently obscure, and one of the most material of whom, we are plainly told, must have borne a fictitious name.

I place it here, having no clue as to date, nor does it matter:] LETTER 317 (Fragment) CHARLES LAMB TO MISS HUTCHINSON (?)

He felt that in so doing he would carry with him an identification taga clue to himself.

For there, I felt certain, lay the clue to the mystery!

Not one in ten is able to suggest any clue as to their origin.

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.

Indeed, the strange occurrences she had just heard were nearly forgotten in the community, and soon would be forgotten altogetherunless the quick ear of a young girl had caught the clue so long ignored.

I received from Pulzsky the clue to Kossuth's quarters, in a quiet street, Bayswater way, if I remember rightly, to which I was to go only late at night, and by some roundabout road, as the Austrian spies were always watching him.

Usually he has no knowledge of them in any abstract form; it is only when he looks back upon the course his life has taken, that he becomes aware of having been always led on by themas though they formed an invisible clue which he had followed unawares.

The searchers went round the Island to try and recover the clue, but without result.

77 Verbs to Use for the Word  clue