Indication

Examples

• I watched eagerly to see the effect, and became impatient at last that there was no indication of any charge being made. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This is an indication of your pleasure at seeing him. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• She has given a faint indication of intending to speak. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The point at which the water, which rose in the tube, might stand was an indication of the temperature. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• His first step is to take himself to Lady Dedlock's rooms and look all over them for any trifling indication that may help him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Failing any other indication, my researches must now take the direction of an inquiry at the bank for the gentleman who has cashed these checks. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It might be injudicious to gauge the greatness of a man by the number of his callers or his letters; but they are at least an indication of the degree to which he interests the world. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This is the only instance showing any indication of impatience that the authors have found in looking through the enormous mass of laboratory notes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Give an indication. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I rather think that you'd think the first stray horse you could find an indication of Providence--shouldn't you? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Up to this time there is no indication of any portion of Lee's army being detached for the defence of Richmond. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Only one indication need be given of the practical resul ts that flowed from Aristotle's scientific work. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Two captive balloons had been floated to show the course and also to give an indication of the proper altitude to maintain. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• A few drops of water or perfume thrown on the floor of a room are sufficient to give a very decided indication on the galvanometer in circuit with the instrument. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• You have an indication, you see, of a long body with very short legs attached to it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• GENERAL: All indications now are that Lee will attempt to reach Danville with the remnant of his force. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Poor Mrs. Vincy's terror at these indications of danger found vent in such words as came most easily. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• An open and capacious forehead gave indications of a good understanding, joined to great frankness of disposition. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• At best they are tentative; they are suggestions, indications. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was only as the fifteenth century drew to its close that any indications of the real vitality of Western Europe became clearly apparent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The indications here, however, are neither very marked nor very important. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• And yet there were indications there, had they not been overlaid by other details which concealed their true import. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Up to this point the incident bore the appearance of an ordinary accident, but fresh indications seem to point to serious crime. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• They had with them a gold tablet and other indications from the Great Khan that must have greatly facilitated their journey. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But since providential indications demand a renunciation from me, I renounce. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It has long been said that The pen is mightier than the sword, but from present indications, it is proper to add that the typewriter is mightier than the pen. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• We kept minute records of these indications, and when the survey was finished we had exact information of the deposits in every part of each State we had passed through. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I can myself, he said, trace no indications of actual disease. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• There are indications that she has had recourse to an optician at least twice during the last few months. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• As far as we can judge by various indications of language and thought, it must be later than the one and of course earlier than the other. Plato. The Republic.

Checked by Janice