Intimation

Examples

• Receiving this as an intimation that it was best not to delay, I settled that I would go to-morrow, and said so. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Hannah entered with the intimation that a poor lad was come, at that unlikely time, to fetch Mr. Rivers to see his mother, who was drawing away. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Both negroes grinned a horrid grin, at this intimation. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The stone by which he was seated, bore, in large characters, an intimation that it was just seventy miles from that spot to London. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Mrs. Crawley returned a note with her compliments, and an intimation that it was not her custom to transact bargains with ladies' maids. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And yet in the absurdities which follow from some uses of the analogy, there seems to be an intimation conveyed that virtue is more than art. Plato. The Republic.
• The latter reflection took me back again to the Sergeant, with a polite intimation that I could not find it in my heart to leave him by himself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He had then not the least intimation of my intention to set up there or anywhere. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• We judged, by the unlimited wording of the gracious intimation, that you would be giving yourself too much trouble. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The letter, however, gave no intimation of the nature of the object for which I had been invited to appear before Mr. Edison. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Mrs. Reynolds respect for Elizabeth seemed to increase on this intimation of her knowing her master. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• And must not the soul be perplexed at this intimation which the sense gives of a hard which is also soft? Plato. The Republic.
• This was not an agreeable intimation. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• It was not long after that--not more than two or three days--when he gave me the first intimation of what I tell you. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It would seem as if the man had had some intimation of what was in hand against him, or had taken fright? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Yes, he said, these intimations which the soul receives are very curious and require to be explained. Plato. The Republic.
• The mysterious warnings and intimations of Cassy, so far from discouraging his soul, in the end had roused it as with a heavenly call. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• There are intimations of it even as early as More's _Utopia_ (1516). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To him she imparted those mysterious intimations which the soul feels, as the cords begin to unbind, ere it leaves its clay forever. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And so of the other senses; do they give perfect intimations of such matters? Plato. The Republic.
• There are few intimations of any such enthusiasm for the League at the present time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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