Private eye's activity

Usage examples of tailing.

McDowells troops would still be tailing along as Bonham crossed Bull Run.

Dirk was so flummoxed to find that he had actually physically hit the person he was supposed to be stealthily tailing that in order to allay any suspicion he jumped onto a passing bus and headed off down Rosebery Avenue.

Now everything was overgrown with brush, and the stream ran clear and clean, undarkened by placer tailings.

CHAPTER VI A RIDE WITH SLUG AT almost the same time that Richard Harrison was so carefully tailing the strange movements of John Shipton, events of an equally sinister character were in the making in a much more respectable section of town.

Leicester had gone through six months of tradecraft training at the Farm with Eric, tailing unsuspecting tourists through the streets of Williamsburg, Virginia.

One hand seemed only just to have dropped a dark red rose, its petals blowsily open and near to tailing, and she was as wet as if she had been out in the storm.

The fuel now entering the hellbox was still from the mined tailings on Nobody Home.

Tailing him was easy because he hunched into the rain with his head down and, except when he crossed Linnaean in front of me to head down Mass.

Sister Mary Philomel alone who thought of pollution, mine tailings, the coal cars that passed endlessly along the tracks beyond the hospital grounds.

You could see the white-and-tan dots here and there where the limpers were tailing away.

He would plant forests and beautiful flower gardens, with livestock on grassy hills rather than smelter smokestacks and mounds of discarded tailings from the mine shafts.

If the manifest of ingredients on the bottle had been legible, it would have read something like this: Water, blackstrap molasses, imported habanero peppers, salt, garlic, ginger, tomato puree, axle grease, real hickory smoke, snuff, butts of clove cigarettes, Guinness Stout fermentation dregs, uranium mill tailings, muffler cores, monosodium glutamate, nitrates, nitrites, nitrotes and nitrutes, nutrites, natrotes, powdered pork nose hairs, dynamite, activated charcoal, match-heads, used pipe cleaners, tar, nicotine, singlemalt whiskey, smoked beef lymph nodes, autumn leaves, red fuming nitric acid, bituminous coal, fallout, printer's ink, laundry starch, drain deaner, blue chrysotile asbestos, carrageenan, BHA, BHT, and natural flavorings.

The engineer unrolled the plans he carried, spread them on the dusty earth at his feet and anchored the corners with diamondiferous pebbles from Zouga's tailing dump which had spilled into and was threatening to engulf the entire camp.

But when I got back from my call on Sperling on Thursday afternoon Wolfe had already been busy on the phone, getting Saul Panzer and Fred Durkin and Orrie Gather, and when they came to the office Friday morning for briefing Saul was assigned to a survey of Rony's past, after reading Bascom, and Fred and Orrie were given special instructions for fancy tailing.

If theof ingredients on the bottle had been legible, it would havesomething like this:blackstrap molasses, imported habanero peppers, salt,ginger, tomato puree, axle grease, real hickory smoke, snuff,of clove cigarettes, Guinness Stout fermentation dregs,mill tailings, muffler cores, monosodium glutamate,nitrites, nitrotes and nitrutes, nutrites, natrotes, powderednose hairs, dynamite, activated charcoal, match-heads, usedcleaners, tar, nicotine, singlemalt whiskey, smoked beef lymphautumn leaves, red fuming nitric acid, bituminous coal,printer's ink, laundry starch, drain deaner, blue chrysotilecarrageenan, BHA, BHT, and natural flavorings.