The Sprit Leg-of-Mutton Sail has this advantage, that the clew of the sail is much higher than the tack, thus avoiding the danger of dipping the clew in the water and tripping the boat.
The thought blanched my cheek, and I resolved to make inquiry and search from the crest of the Blue Ridge all the way to the Mississippi, and not to return home till I had found Ellen, or had gotten some clew to her fate.
Three days later the horse came back, saddled and bridled, but we have never heard a word of Ellen, nor had a clew as to her whereabouts.
But though the halyards were let go, it was impossible to clew down the yards, owing to the enormous horizontal strain on the canvas.
The name sounds familiar," said the stranger; "perhaps I shall be able to get some clew to it.
It was now a fortnight since she came to New Orleans, and still no clewof Vincent.
Victorine was always on the qui vive for the accession of a lover, as a necessary appendage to one in Mademoiselle Melanie's position; and, at this moment, she felt as though she had a clew to some intrigue.
Following this clew I started immediately for Edinburgh, and arrived here on Wednesday evening.
The count had no clewto the cause of his sudden return to Brittany.
While thus engaged, her eye fell upon the following paragraph: "No clew has as yet been obtained to the mysterious Palmer affair, although both the police and detectives are doing their utmost to trace the clever thief.
But days and weeks passed, and no clew was obtained regarding either the stolen jewels or Ray's mysterious fate; therefore the belief that he had been foully dealt with prevailed very generally.
Fascinated, she found her eyes searching the shape beside her for a clew to the answer of this lamentable mystery.
As her glance--behind the cover of her reopened book--traveled over the cloaked shape searching for a clew to the secret she saw how that chance promised to serve her ends.
Grey, for six months this advertisement has appeared every morning in two of the most popular journals in Paris, and as it has elicited no clew to her whereabouts, I am reluctantly compelled to believe that she is no longer in France.
Grey, I believe my prayer has been heard, and that at last I have discovered a clew to the retreat of my lost Evelyn.
He offered a large reward to the police for any clew that would enable him to discover her, and finally found the physician whom she had consulted with reference to some disease of the throat, which occasioned the loss of her voice.
As it so happens," commented De Garros, "that is no clew at all, for I happened to notice that the equine in question was a white one.
The last search had been made, the last clew followed, the last resources of wealth and skill were at an end, and these, these bones and trinkets were all that could be found.
I took him home with me to my lodgings in the city that night, and the next morning I went out to the scene of the accident to try to discover some clew to his identity.
This fact is important, as it gives us some clewto the method adopted by Landa in forming his alphabet.
This furnishes a clew which, if followed up, may lead to important results.
Greatly relieved by knowing that a clew would be now given to her friends, and overpowered by fatigue, Ethel was very shortly fast asleep.
We have no clew whatever to guide us at present, except the certainty that sooner or later the Indians will make for their own camping-ground.
He did not see him, yet another man gave him the clew and unwittingly directed him to the house of Citizen Fargeau.
They continued their journey toward Beauvais, with only one clew to the scoundrel who had murdered and robbed the faithful Rouzet.
Here's a clew to our mysterious visitor and thief.
Meanwhile Phil, Tom and Sid had been keeping their ears on the alert, and their eyes open for any hint, in talk or action, that would give them a clew to who had taken their chair and clock.
It is strange that a man should vanish with leaving a clew behind him, and I will not confess that I am beaten.
But fearing that the clew might be followed up, I abandoned my intention of going north, and went south instead, ultimately crossing the border into the United States.
The only clew we have is that he has been seen several times on the Portsmouth Road, driving one or two cars in which was a man who is probably the nearest approach to Rex Holland we shall get.
I never had a clew yet that I never follered to the bitter end," said the preening constable.
Presently I got a clew to our position, for we crossed Cheapside close to Paul's Cross, which my childish memories of the town enabled me to recognize, even by that light.
The robbery at Walnut Hill caused a good deal of excitement in Prairieville and for miles up and down Wild River Valley, but no clew to the perpetrators could be discovered.
She possessed no clew to it, and even could she decide which it was, how was she to attract his attention without betraying her vicinity to others?
But as before, when committing similar acts of depredation, the wily villains had managed their work so adroitly that no clew to their identity could be found.
This would perhaps give a clew how to proceed further, and, as we know, her letter was written at once, and brought an immediate reply.
At about the time of hatching, the fins differ too much from those of the adult, and the general form has too few peculiarities, to give any clew to this problem.
Some portions of Agassiz's correspondence with his European friends and colleagues during the winter and summer of 1847 give a clew to the occupations and interests of his new life, and keep up the thread of the old one.
Such a move on your part may give Carter a clew to our location," declared Venner.
As a matter of fact, the famous detective was in quite a quandary over the case, because of his conviction that some big game was secretly afoot, and his utter inability to strike any tangible clew to it.
But no other clew will answer," declared Kilgore, forcibly.
I thought that they possibly had been made with some design, and perhaps formed some word or sentence that would give us a clew to the mystery.
But in losing her head over Venner, and jealously doing up that girl to-day, she has given the Carters a clew by which to track us.
The district might have been any one of the many manufacturing centres in "the largest of shires," which was the one geographical clew vouchsafed by the half-penny paper.
She felt as far as ever from any satisfactory clew to his mysterious reasons for ever wishing to marry her.
Then he split the smooth-skinned powan, And a blue clew he discovered, In the powan's entrails hidden, In the third fold of the entrails.
It seemed to me that his reception of it would furnish some sort of clew to the mystery of his former acquaintance with her.
I cared nothing for cold glances or indifferent airs so long as my golden-haired Ariadne threw me the clew by which I threaded the labyrinth, and gave me the talisman by which to open the door.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
