What is "hints"

Usage examples of "hints".

Nor were there wanting some, who, after the departure of Jenny, insinuated that she was spirited away with a design too black to be mentioned, and who gave frequent hints that a legal inquiry ought to be made into the whole matter, and that some people should be forced to produce the girl.

He had besides received proper hints from his brother, which he failed not to improve to the best advantage.

He gave him frequent hints, that to adopt the fruits of sin, was to give countenance to it.

However, being greatly cautious to avoid being found in a mistake, she carried the secret a whole fortnight in her bosom, giving only some oblique hints, by simpering, winks, nods, and now and then dropping an obscure word, which indeed sufficiently alarmed Sophia, but did not at all affect her brother.

In the interval between the time of the dialogue in the last chapter, and this day of public entertainment, Sophia had, from certain obscure hints thrown out by her aunt, collected some apprehension that the sagacious lady suspected her passion for Jones.

She remembered the many hints she had given her niece concerning her being in love, and imagined the young lady had taken this way to rally her out of her opinion, by an overacted civility: a notion that was greatly corroborated by the excessive gaiety with which the whole was accompanied.

Here I mean such imitators as Rowe was of Shakespear, or as Horace hints some of the Romans were of Cato, by bare feet and sour faces.

As for my character, I perceive, by some hints she hath thrown out, he hath been very free with it, but I forgive him.

She was not about to disappear, as had the others along the way who had dropped their enigmatic hints and vanished.

And the more he looked at it, the more he experienced maddening hints of familiarity.

Now he could recall flashes, fragmentary hints, of a process for producing a good underwater wine .

The couple still clung together, but there were hints of something wrong between them, deeper than a mere quarrel.

Pale moonlight gleamed off the broken paving stones, showing hints of scurrying vermin.

In most cases, she had accomplished this with a few hints, but a couple of the young women of the tribe had required a more direct approach.

Dyson made the inquiry rather than have Ty think his daughter had dropped some hints to him.