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Sentences ending with hint

I will give you a valuable hint. [5]
Herewith I send you a copy of a letter written at New York, which sufficiently explains itself, and which may or may not give you a valuable hint. [7]
He is a very knowing young man, but I can't think he is foolish enough, to say nothing of his honesty, to make any false step of the kind you seem to hint. [6]
They were so troubled about my enchanted clothes that they were mightily relieved, at last, when old Merlin swept the difficulty away for them with a common-sense hint. [5]
I would like to give her a hint. [5]
So he took the Widow's hint. [6]
It seemed a stylish thing to go to the theater in kid gloves, and we acted upon the hint. [5]
The king sat on at the head of the table, pale as death, staring into the wine-cup as if unconscious of what was going on around hint. [10]
No; there was not one hint. [11]
The Vicomtesse gave me no hint. [9]

Short sentences using hint

That hint was also remembered. [5]
Treasure this hint. [5]

Sentences containing hint two or more times

I cannot help thinking of the flappers in Swift's Laputa, only they gave one a hint when to speak and another a hint to listen, whereas the popgun says unmistakably, "Shut up! [6]
Mind, not a hint of them must escape--not a hint. [5]

More example sentences with the word hint in them

By this hint you know what is coming, but Cathy didn't. [5]
I thought I would just give you a hint, as you are going to see Mr. Parr, that he is in rather a nervous state. [9]
Heaven is my witness that no baser feeling leads me to hint of it here. [9]
I answered him with what carefulness I could, and brought round the question of your death, by hint and allusion getting him to speak of the mode of execution. [11]
Suddenly I discovered with a flush that she was looking at me intently, without embarrassment, but with an expression that seemed to hint of humor in the situation. [9]
Thus, I am willing to avail myself of any hint coming from without to offer this paper once more to the press. [3]
Even Joseph Goodman, who had a fine literary perception and a deep knowledge of men, intimately associated with Mark Twain as he was, received at this time no hint of his greater powers. [5]
In a letter which Mark Twain wrote to his brother Orion at this period we get the first hint of a venture which was to play an increasingly important part in the Hartford home and fortunes during the next ten or a dozen years. [5]
I know too well that what I say will not reach the eyes of many who might possibly take a hint from it. [6]
My story was well advanced before Hawthorne's wonderful "Marble Faun," which might be thought to have furnished me with the hint of a mixed nature,--human, with an alien element,--was published or known to me. [6]
There was no weakness in the face, no meekness, no suggestion of the conception of the sacrificed Lamb, no hint of a beatific vision of opening heavens--and yet no accusation, no despair. [9]
It opened in Washington in May, and a letter from Parsloe, written at the moment, gives a hint of the situation. [5]
Self-centered as Lise was, absorbed in her own trouble and present physical discomfort, this unaccustomed word from her sister and the vehemence with which it was spoken surprised and frightened her, brought home to her some hint of the terror in Janet's soul. [9]
The unmentioned fact was that Jack had taken a little flier in Oshkosh, and a hint from Henderson one evening at the Union, when the venture looked squally, had let him out of a heavy loss into a small profit, and Jack felt grateful. [4]
If Mark Twain was tempted, we get no hint of it in his answer. [5]
The French cause was standing still, our King was standing still, there was no hint that by and by the Constable Richemont would come forward and take up the great work of Joan of Arc and finish it. [5]
After the toast was finished, with an emphasised assumption of weariness, and a hint of a long yarn on the morrow, he picked up his blanket and started for the room where all were to sleep. [11]
At length I ventured to give him a hint that our young friend and myself would both of us be greatly gratified if he would begin reading from his unpublished page where he had left off. [6]
Did Cauchon hint to the English guards that thenceforth if they chose to make their prisoner's captivity crueler and bitterer than ever, no official notice would be taken of it? [5]
I was about to tell you, Mr. Ritchie," she continued, turning to me, "that Auguste has given no hint in his note of Mr. Temple's presence in Louisiana. [9]
But it need to surprise even the Colonel when he read it, it was embellished to that degree that he hardly recognized it, and the hint was not lost on him. [5]
Jack's brief notes to her were therefore, as usual, indefinite, but with the hint that he was beginning to see a way out of his embarrassment. [4]
If I ventured to cautiously hint that there was not another respectable family in England that would humble itself to hold out the hat--however, that is as far as I ever got; he always cut me short there, and peremptorily, too. [5]
They knew that this would suggest the comparison between Caesar and the sanguinary wretch whose name had been applied to him, and all who were eager to give expression to their vexation or dissatisfaction took the hint and joined in the outcry. [10]
He had met this officer of Rullecour's these ten years past, and never once had the Frenchman, by so much as a hint, suggested that he knew the truth about his father. [11]
Two days after this letter was written we get a hint of what was the beginning of business trouble--that is to say, of the failing health of Charles L. Webster. [5]
And this opinion, this hint, was to Katharina like a distaff from which she spun a lengthening thread to warp to the loom and weave from it a tangible tissue. [10]
I'd begun to think I warn't going to get a hint of no kind to help me. [5]
I don't doubt there are a great many people wiser than I am that would n't be hurt by a hint I am going to give them. [6]
I sometimes think the less the hint that stirs the automatic machinery of association, the more easily this moves us. [6]
That she gave the least hint of what she said to Mr. Burnett concerning Evelyn is not to be supposed for a moment. [4]
They will double the guards; they will never let any come near her now between this and her condemnation, lest she get a hint and speak that word again. [5]
A hint from the god to offer him a sacrifice on this happy day. [10]
Well enough for the fortunate ones who were to continue the academic journey, which implied a postponement of the serious business of life; but month after month of the last term had passed without a hint from my father that I was to change cars. [9]
They paused outside the door, on Morris's hint, that he might see if the coast was clear, and return the swords to their place on the wall. [11]
That part of the brief never got before Congress, nor has Congress ever yet had a hint of forgery existing among the Fisher papers. [5]
As much of the book as I have read gives no hint, as far as I recollect. [5]
It was evident that the old man had mentioned his millions in the way of a hint to him of what he might reasonably expect if he would turn and be his son-in-law. [8]
Nevertheless, the hint that Harry had dropped fell upon good ground, and bore fruit an hundred fold; it worked in her mind until she had built up a plan on it, and almost a career for herself. [5]
The comfort of tears was denied him, but his grief gripped him at the heart, clouded his brain and made hint so irritably sensitive that an unfamiliar voice, though even at a distance, disturbed him and made him angry. [10]
I suppose people talk about me: At your age I should have been angry too at a hint even from an old friend. [4]
Captain Lyman had taken a hint from Mason's talk, and he now gave ordered that our camp should be guarded against surprise by the posting of pickets. [5]
I wish to take a hint in education from the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, who regards the cultivation of too much land as a great defect in our New England farming. [3]
I leave my suggestion of borrowing a hint from French practice to your mature consideration. [3]
These emotions, often suggested by some hint of beauty, as of the sun glinting on the river on a bright blue day, had a sudden way of possessing her, and the longing they induced was pain. [9]
And there is such a grave analytical profundity in the faces of "The Connoisseurs;" and such pathos in the picture of the fawn suckling its dead mother, on a snowy waste, with only the blood in the footprints to hint that she is not asleep. [5]
It had been stolen, and in all the bitter days to come, when poverty and misery ground them down, no hint of the thief, no sign of the robber, was ever revealed. [11]
And I was sometimes at a loss whether to be grateful to Maude or troubled because she had as yet given him no hint of our separation. [9]
I feel in some degree authorised to rely on your favourable impressions, because you are quite right where you hint disapprobation. [14]
Meantime, Sally had several times thrown out a feeler--that is, a hint that he would like to know. [5]
He does not send me his intellectual measurements, and he might as well have sent to a Boston tailor for a coat, without any hint of his dimensions in length, breadth, and thickness. [6]
Ian Stafford had said that things could go on in this house as before, that Rudyard would never hint to her what he knew, or rather what the letter had told him or left untold: but that was impossible. [11]
Myrtle had sufficient reason to believe that there was a hint of Indian blood in her veins. [6]
I take this rather premature obituary as a hint that, unless I come to some arrangement with my well-meaning but insatiable correspondents, it would be as well to leave it in type, for I cannot bear much longer the load they lay upon me. [6]
I thought this question might perhaps bring il disiato riso, the long-wished-for smile, but the Scarabee interpreted it in the simplest zoological sense, and neglected its hint of playfulness with the most absolute unconsciousness, apparently, of anything not entirely serious and literal. [6]
Van Dorn had promised to extend the hint to us. [5]
With one hand pressed to her throbbing bosom, she watched each vehicle as it drove past with such intense expectancy that she paid no heed to Andreas's hint that they might now be able to make their way through the crowd. [10]
I could not possibly give you one of the 'arguments' you cruelly hint at, on which any doctrine of mine stands; for I do not know what arguments are in reference to any expression of a thought. [6]
The cups were polished until they beat back the light like mirrors, and the glossy bear and tiger skins gave no hint of dying agonies. [9]
To his hint Phips had only replied with a laugh: these harum-scarum scamps were more to his mind than ordinary seamen. [11]
But hardly had Philip begun to speak of his brother's misdemeanor, than Timotheus laid his hand on his bearded lips, as a hint to be cautious, and whispered in his ear, "Speak quickly and low, if you love your life! [10]
He threw it out in snatches, this religion, while relating the histories of certain persons in the room: of Jastro, for instance, letting fall a hint to the effect that this evangelist and bliss Bond were dwelling together in more than amity. [9]
Not a word or even a hint of Dorothy had been uttered, nor did Chartersea so much as refer to his Covent Garden experience. [9]
And in one of these same volumes he will find the article, by Dr. Jacob Bigelow, doubtless, which was the first hint of our rural cemeteries, and foreshadowed that new era in our underground civilization which is sweetening our atmospheric existence. [6]
Ditmar, removing one of the side curtains that she might see, with just a hint in his voice of a reverence she was too excited to notice, pointed out the stern and respectable facades of the twin Chippering mansions standing side by side. [9]
But the members of the Brampton Club could take a hint, and with one consent began to make excuses. [9]
Perhaps some hint of its sale had already reached his ears, for, although he had made no opposition to her apology, he afterward remained taciturn and irritable. [10]
The slightest hint of it would throw him into a paroxysm, like that he had had when it was first spoken. [12]
I took advantage of a moment when she was absent to venture a hint on this point, to which the old man replied that there were few grown persons as trustworthy or as careful as she. [12]
Holding the back of a chair, and looking earnestly at me, she continued: "Once, on the vessel, you remember, in a hint so very little, I made it appear that madame was selfish. [11]
He himself was not often betrayed into the mistake of confounding the prosaic with the poetical, but his followers, so far as the "realists" have taken their hint from him, have done it most thoroughly. [6]
But frankness was not an ingredient of the Honourable Hilary's nature, and Austen was not the kind of man who would accept a hint and a wink. [9]
But he gets no hint, when he goes to most churches, that there is, between the two, no real quarrel, and he turns away in despair. [9]
There is, however, no hint of humor, and only a mild suggestion of the author of the Innocents Abroad in this early attempt. [5]
We were together night and day, on the sea and on the road, and, while I poured out my life to him, the rogue never once let fall a hint of the divine Miss Dorothy. [9]
Elements I had never suspected, in Nancy, awe, even a hint of despair, entered into it, and when my hand found hers again, the very quality of its convulsive pressure seemed to have changed. [9]
The soldier only needed to hint and I fell.--I did not stay with him long, he was a windy braggart; but I was faithful to Captain Grandgagnage and accompanied the wild fellow with the Walloons through every land, until he was shot. [10]
Your man comes nearer, and now some hint of a bulbous enlargement at one end, and perhaps of lateral appendages and a bifurcation, begins to show itself. [6]
Besides, her kindly nature and feminine tact made her grateful to Wolf for his hint of distinguishing, by the first performance of one of his works, the able conductor and fine composer upon whom she had imposed so fatiguing a journey. [10]
I thought if Mr. Young could not do anything else, he might probably be able to give me some advice and a valuable hint or two, and so I went straight to him and laid the whole case before him. [5]
They were bantering Mr. King about his Narragansett excursion, his cousin having maliciously given the party a hint of his encounter with the tide at the Pier. [4]
He thought no more of the hint that it was Paula's part to make room for him. [10]
It always pleases me to take some hint from anything he says when I can, and carry it out in a direction not unlike that of his own remark. [6]
Or she'll give me a hint about some new way for my lover to make a declaration. [6]
Strange as it may seem, an aerial hint of his personality in the far distance always awakens in my mind pleasant remembrances and tender reflections. [6]
One practical hint may not be out of place here. [3]
I owe him many a hint, much aid; I mean in referring me to rare books, and explaining obscure passages. [10]
He did not make the question abrupt, and there was even the hint of a smile in his eyes, which Mr. Plimpton found the more disquieting. [9]
It would very likely have come to some violent act, that would have ended badly, if I had not had a hint from another person, even before Uarda told me of what threatened Pentaur. [10]
From the next letter one might almost conclude that he had received a hint of this plan, and was bent upon supplying rich material. [5]
In the next letter and the one following it we get a hint of an episode, or rather of two incidents which he combined into an episode in Roughing It. [5]
Then two months later he gives us at least a hint of his employment. [5]
No word of its real use, no hint of its nightly service, no allusion to its peculiar properties, had ever passed between him and his most intimate friends. [12]
The stable-keeper, who, it may be remembered, once exchanged a few playful words with Mr. Gridley, got a hint from some of these unfeeling young men, and offered the resources of his stable to the youth supposed to be in peril. [6]
I interpreted this, indeed, as in rather the nature of a kindly hint that such a procedure would be wise in view of the larger life now dawning for me, but I made no comment.... [9]
The Democratic policy in regard to that institution will not tolerate the merest breath, the slightest hint, of the least degree of wrong about it. [7]
Others had spoken in a similar strain, and it is a certain tribute to his character to record that the underlying hint had been lost on Hodder. [9]
It seems as if Emerson had a warning from the poetic instinct which, when it does not precede the movement of the scientific intellect, is the first to catch the hint of its discoveries. [6]
Taking the hint, I threw myself upon my couch, and composed myself. [11]
When, for instance, I by and by reproduce what the Landlady said to us, I shall give it almost without any hint that it was arrested in its flow from time to time by various expressions on the part of the hearers. [6]

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