Indications

Examples

• 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.
• With these three indications as a starting-point he could build up an alphabet. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There are several other indications, but these may be enough to aid us in our search. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The mirror as it moves throws a beam of light upon a scale and the indications are read by the spot of light. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The indications were that he was moving, but it was found that he was only taking his new position back from the salient that had been captured. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I never said that the lines I drew were indications of faults at all. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Of the trend of these developments we must now give some brief indications. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Coal fields today present abundant indications of the existence of huge ancient forests, usually in the form of coal formed from the roots of the trees. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Here, however, there were indications of the concentration of Confederate infantry, and he was obliged to keep his army close together. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He wished to go to sea, and gave indications of leadership and enterprise. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• All the indications seem to me to point in that direction. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• From this time Felix was more employed; and the heart-moving indications of impending famine disappeared. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• These indications of inward disturbance moved Archer the more that he too felt that the Mingotts had gone a little too far. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Laws are introduced at a very early stage, with at best a few indications of the way in which they were arrived at. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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