Hints

Examples

• Medora's hints-- Is it at your husband's request that she has arrived here suddenly? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I had my own reasons for being dismayed at this apparition; too well I remembered the perfidious hints given by Mrs. Reed about my disposition, &c. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Once I thought the hints and jests rained upon a young fair-haired foreigner of the party, whom they called Heinrich Mühler. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I availed myself of your obliging hints to correct my timidity, and it is unnecessary to add that they were perfectly accurate. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Julia might be justified in so doing by the hints of Mrs. Grant, inclined to credit what she wished, and Maria by the hints of Mr. Crawford himself. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• But she probably had something of that in her thoughts, when alluding to the misunderstandings which he had given us hints of before. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I had, indeed, from time to time, put down short hints of the sentiments, reasonings, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I'm expected to take hints, not to give them: I've positively lived on them all these last months. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• As you have desired it of me, I write the following hints, which have been of service to me, and may, if observed, be so to you. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• His mother had inflamed his mind by hints and vague speeches of some deep mystery about his parentage. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There are hints of a 'corner' on Wallachians. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But Rosedale's natural imperviousness to hints made it easy for him to brush such resistance aside. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• By dint of persuasion, I made him half-define these hints; they amounted to crafty Jesuit-slanders. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But natural affection, Mr. George, hints Grandfather Smallweed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We were very pleasant, going down, and Mr. Spenlow gave me some hints in reference to my profession. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Père Silas dropped dark hints. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I am glad you think I have been useful to her; but Harriet only wanted drawing out, and receiving a few, very few hints. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The disguises the party had assumed were in accordance with the hints of Tom Loker. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• All in a minute various hints and trifles assumed shape and significance in Amy's mind, and told her what her sister never had confided to her. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• His adviser caught at some stray hints in it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• With pleasure, said he, though I venture to prophesy that you'll want very few hints. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Hints--from me to you? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Mr. Henry Bell, of Glasgow, a man of great ingenuity, had for some time directed his attention to the subject, and had given some useful hints to Fulton. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Lydgate took Mr. Farebrother's hints very cordially, though he would hardly have borne them from another man. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• How could he say: Yes, if what your husband hints is true, or if you've no way of disproving it? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Miss Dartle was full of hints and mysterious questions, but took a great interest in all our proceedings there, and said, 'Was it really though? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But it never hints that the success of its plan means vast alterations in our social life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• How can one be condescending to a lady to whom one owes a matter of forty pounds, and who is perpetually throwing out hints for the money? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Perhaps we can raise it again and follow the hints it unfolds. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There is no dirt, no decay, no rubbish anywhere--nothing that even hints at untidiness --nothing that ever suggests neglect. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Typist: Wesley