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Usage examples of clue.

Weeden gave it to his companion after the end, as a mute clue to the abnormality which had occurred, or whether, as is more probable, Smith had it before, and added the underscoring himself from what he had managed to extract from his friend by shrewd guessing and adroit cross-questioning.

I had not tried to get myself on the uneditable tape, to provide the watchers some clue about where this abomination was taking place .

Having absolutely no clue as to the contents of the wardrobe, Alec hazarded a guess.

Somehow I was certain the clue lay somewhere among the carefully pasted-in pieces Alsa had written.

These ancient alchemists hid the next clue in such a manner that the seeker not only had to solve the riddle, but also had to have a basic understanding of the amalgam and its properties.

His success was due solely to his own natural vigor and energy and the smartness of Marsh Folsom, who could read and write and because of this could go some way to deciphering some of the meager clues they had found in the original Apps caverns and other Stockpiles.

Safar flipped through the pages of the Book of Asper for clues to the proper spell.

Necronomicon, in those parts which Wilbur had sought so avidly, seemed to supply new and terrible clues to the nature, methods, and desires of the strange evil so vaguely threatening this planet.

Phule his first useful clue as to why she and Beeker had come here-and maybe tell him where he could catch up to them.

The statue of an enormously plump saint in a chalky, yellowy-white robe smiled beneficently from a niche between two tallow candles, and Rudy felt uneasy, filled with a sense of looking at clues he did not understand.

But lab results had been lost, tests botched, evidence turned up missing, and all the clues seemed to lead to dead ends.

Therefore, it was not a child of poor people, but, perhaps, the child of some nobleman and a little bourgeoise of the town--or again--we made a thousand suppositions, but we never found out anything-never the slightest clue.

There we intended to casually engage happy-hour patrons in discussion of Thunderbolt, Perry, the proposed buyout, and even Tiger Defense in a last-ditch attempt to track down Man of the People and to uncover any possible clues as to what, precisely, was so dirty about this deal.

Clues to the cache lead him to a location beneath the ocean floor-near strange Easter Island, with its eerie ruins.

House 9 The Old Windmill PART TWO 1 The Green Canary Learns to Fly 2 Nippit, the Greenfinch 3 Ebony Island 4 Pippinella Finds a Clue 5 The Window-Cleaner at Last!