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hint at
1. They should get the hint at this point
2. And those remaining, very few, who through bigotry or sheer ignorance had despised the little family's presence in the village, now had to be very cautious indeed to at least never publicly hint at any lingering misgivings regarding the Livingsons they might still privately harbor
3. Alec stared hard at the elf, struggling to see his eyes of white and gray from within his hood, hoping to find in them a hint at the elf's true purpose
4. Any Cratchit would have blushed to hint at
5. Any Cratchit would have blushed to hint at such a
6. forbidden lore hint at the possibility that earth is suffering the dark plots of maniac, chthonic deities
7. relaxing mood, and while Crowley foretold the constellation of stars wouldn’t hint at Adriano getting
8. I pinch my side, where a layer of fat used to hint at curves to come
9. “Are they…?” I let the rest of the question hint at itself
10. " Nowhere do the plain words of the Constitution even hint at a "right" so sweeping as to permit abortion up to the time the child is ready to be born
11. There’s a hint at the solution
12. There’s a far more intimate involvement between all forms of life that organised religions have no inkling of, and therefore can't hint at
13. “A penny for your thoughts,” Michael remarked with a hint at
14. Well the headline hopefully will attract attention, the copy gives a hint at the
15. Now that they all knew that they didn't want to hint at anything like that
16. Then, you quickly hint at a solution
17. Asking questions that hint at the need for action but do not call the
18. hint at that attraction subtly, if anything
19. She hoped Sam’s reply would hint at how much he knew about what happened; surely, Sam and Philippe were not speaking to each other?
20. as equal to or better than normal and gives no hint at all of a
21. Taking the hint at once, Marsant escorted her without further ado to his small office, which connected with an examination/treatment room
22. Let me try to get her on phone and explain my position and hint at my love even
23. Hint at a warning and at the same time whet the appetite
24. Although times were hard, there was no talk of leaving when I was here recently and Dawit said nothing at the Council that would hint at where they might be
25. So, this scheme may be seriously considered only as a hint at definite directions of analytical and logical thinking processes
26. Other systems are also based on principles which hint at oneness, or have oneness as
27. actually to pay heed to what he was attempting to hint at
28. Did her meticulous attire and makeup hint at something more than feminine coquetry?
29. No Historian dares even hint at the actual truth of why such an unheard-of thing as a splitting of a bell happened two times in a row
30. That is another hint at how sick European culture had become
31. Freud was the first to hint at the fact that all parents violate and abuse their own children
32. He looked at her closely, trying but failing to find some clue that would hint at her identity
33. The mood at present seemed to hint at one of extreme hostility towards those who dwelt upon the surface of the world
34. But he never says a word of the true reason of his restlessness, to her, and she finds it best not to hint at it to him
35. "Can it be true what you write? You hint at a crime committed, you say, by my brother
36. You hint at it too clearly; you daren't deny it now
37. His increasing fame had brought with it an immense practice, and I should be guilty of an indiscretion if I were even to hint at the identity of some of the illustrious clients who crossed our humble threshold in Baker Street
38. He WOULD write the invitations; and he would take care to mention the leading part he had taken in the fight, and how he had laid the Chief Weasel flat; and he would hint at his adventures, and what a career of triumph he had to tell about; and on the fly-leaf he would set out a sort
39. It was in fact the very appropriate truth that she had ventured to criticize the propriety, to hint at the incongruity, of so close an alliance, and even to go so far on the subject as a frank overture to Miss Jessel
40. As important as it is to understand the patterns associated with successful pullbacks, it is probably equally important to understand the patterns that hint at impending failure
41. The other big belts are, of course, the bullish variety, bullish big belts are important catalysts that hint at the market moving higher
42. There was nothing to hint at what the boys were looking at, what it was that froze their veins and iced their blood
43. These patterns hint at irrationality but could be rationally justified with timevarying risk premia (because discount rate variation is another cause of volatility, in addition to the variation of expected cash flows that Shiller focused on)
44. ) Limited data hint at relative mean reversion tendencies across sectors: if a style is successful over multiple years and there are substantial inflows into it, future return potential may be reduced
45. For example, peak realized excess returns for equities and credits around the business cycle trough hint at high and falling required returns
46. Edgar Hoover in the hope that maybe some of Hoover’s rumor-filled files would hint at something that could be used against him—but to no avail
47. To be called into notice in such a manner, to hear that it was but the prelude to something so infinitely worse, to be told that she must do what was so impossible as to act; and then to have the charge of obstinacy and ingratitude follow it, enforced with such a hint at the dependence of her situation, had been too distressing at the time to make the remembrance when she was alone much less so, especially with the superadded dread of what the morrow might produce in continuation of the subject
48. After talking a little more about Mansfield, a subject in which her interest was most apparent, Crawford began to hint at the expediency of an early walk
49. "Do you mean you think he knows all about the Hermit, the big mystery about him which folks hint at and all that?"
50. He WOULD write the invitations; and he would take care to mention the leading part he had taken in the fight, and how he had laid the Chief Weasel flat; and he would hint at his adventures, and what a career of triumph he had to tell about; and on the fly-leaf he would set out a sort of a programme of entertainment for the evening—something like this, as he sketched it out in his head:—