Traces

Examples

• The artist then has a limited portion of the wall covered over with a fine sort of plaster, and upon this he traces from his cartoon the part of the design suited for the space. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Of course I shall be careful to conceal any traces of this interview from Mr and Mrs Boffin, as long as I remain here. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A cause traces the way to our thought, and in a manner forces us to survey such certain objects, in such certain relations. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The traces of consumption may become fainter, or be wholly effaced: the inherent tendency to vice or crime may be eradicated. Plato. The Republic.
• She seemed to be more soured and put out than distressed, by failing to find any traces of her daughter in these parts. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I am sure that you cannot fail to be delighted with the traces of heredity shown in the p's and in the tails of the g's. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• In the great city all traces of them might be most speedily and most surely effaced. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We have found traces which show that a party of gypsies encamped on Monday night within a mile of the spot where the murder took place. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• And it ended by my discovering traces, but very different ones from those which I had expected. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• All the miseries and discontents of life he traces to insatiable selfishness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But I see no traces of anyone else. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• His boots, too, might be told from their traces. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• She came indoors with her face flushed, and her eyes still showing traces of her recent excitement. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It was a little too bad, Fred began to think, that he should be kept in the traces with more severity than if he had been a clergyman. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• About 5000 B.C., or earlier, the traces of these primitive peoples cease, and the true Egyptians appear on the scene. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The post-boys, who had succeeded in cutting the traces, were standing, disfigured with mud and disordered by hard riding, by the horses' heads. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Bullfinch would kick the carriage to pieces, if you put him in the traces. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the coroner's jury. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• 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.
• By the side of a pool of water far away from the road a Macedonian trooper presently found a deserted mule-cart with its mules still in the traces. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Lying over and above the Proterozoic rocks is a third series, which is found to contain a considerable number and variety of traces of living things. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The traces of the tragedy had been removed, but the furniture within the little room still stood as it had been on the night of the crime. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• No mark of her presence appeared inside the building, but I found traces of her outside it, in footsteps on the sand. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• When next we find abundant traces of the land plants and the land animals of the earth, this great multitude of reptile species had gone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Until after the time of Alexander the Great there are few traces of any Aryan or Semitic, much less of Hamitic influence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She was one who wept without showing many traces, like a child. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The stylus penetrates this film, meeting from it the slightest possible resistance, and traces thereon the message. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• There are no traces of lions or true tigers at that time in Europe, but there were bears, otters, wolves, and a wild boar. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He examined my face, I thought, with austerity, as I came near: the traces of tears were doubtless very visible upon it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Then he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the highroad, where all traces were lost. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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