Signs

Examples

• Maybe her kisses were only signs of friendship. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Signs of intelligence seemed to pass between them, and Pitt spoke with her on subjects on which he never thought of discoursing with Lady Jane. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• These various signs and tokens, marked by the little woman, are not lost upon her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• What was the Origin of Masonic Signs? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If they had only shown signs of meeting my advances halfway how well it might have been done! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• With a human being I have never spoken, except once with Jane Porter, by signs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• There are evidently going to be plenty of horses if you can believe the signs. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He believed without effort in the peculiar work of grace within him, and in the signs that God intended him for special instrumentality. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• His skin, nearly black, his matted hair and bristly beard, were signs of a long protracted misery. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• All the signs visible--signs which told that the paint had been smeared by some loose article of somebody's dress touching it in going by. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Girls are quick to read such signs and feel their eloquence. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• One incident tells how he was found one day in the village square copying laboriously the signs of the stores. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There's no lady in this house that signs Honoria is there? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Seeing bad signs-- Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I will reply to you, said the hermit, with my finger, it being against my rule to speak by words where signs can answer the purpose. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• During the years of the American War of Independence there were few signs of any impending explosion in France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Under Theodoric the Great, Boethius made use of certain signs which were in part very like the nine digits which we now use. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Another heading was Argentine, another Costa Rica, and another San Paulo, each with pages of signs and figures after it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He then, after making more signs on the boy's head, blew on his forehead, and so woke him up with a start. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Seeing bad signs, one, with fear, imagines an end for himself and one thinks that imagining comes by divination, Robert Jordan concluded. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Out came Meg, with gray horsehair hanging about her face, a red and black robe, a staff, and cabalistic signs upon her cloak. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• On Friday, nothing happened--except that one of the dogs showed signs of a breaking out behind the ears. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• They are signs of possible growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They saw no signs of natives nor were they molested by wild beasts. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He was looking impatiently at Madame Fosco, who showed no signs of leaving the room with me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I then worked the lawn very carefully for signs and traces, but this drought has made everything as hard as iron. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• This cannot be if my wife signs as well as myself, because we have but one opinion between us, and that opinion is mine. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

Editor: Moll