I know that, now, many who have concealed their starving condition are ferreted out, and relieved as far as possible.
But this case will be ferreted out, I'm sure, both because of the prominence of your uncle, and the fact that there is money enough to hire the best talent, if desired.
I have ferreted it all out from the other servants.
The old fellow, who was dressed shabbily even for a labourer, was the contractor for the rabbits shot or ferreted in these woods.
Very small buries with not more than four or five holes may be ferreted even on the darkest nights by carefully observing beforehand where the holes are situate.
The mountain kloops disgorged large quantities of supplies and vehicles, and from these regions General Campbell ferreted out seventeen Boers.
Meanwhile Colonel Kekewich, moving at the same date (19th) from Commando Nek, ferreted along the bed of the Crocodile River and effected the capture of fourteen of the enemy together with their horses.
It was this honest and astute servant of royalty who ferreted out the peculations of Fouquet, whom Louis did not hesitate to disgrace and punish.
Walsingham, her ambassador at Paris, and afterwards her secretary of state, ferreted out the plots of the Jesuits and the intrigues of hostile courts, and rendered priceless service by his acuteness and diligence.
The chief reliance, however, is the spectroscope--the instrument which revealed the presence of helium in the sun and the stars more than a quarter of a century before Professor Ramsay ferretedit out as a terrestrial element.
You will understand, of course, that krypton, neon, and zenon are the new gases of the atmosphere whose existence no one suspected until Professor Ramsay ferreted them out a few years ago and isolated them.
And they ferreted round for what she was ferreting round for in the Hague.
And they ferreted very industriously and dug up the sand and kept up their cross-fire as a sport for the tea-parties and evening-parties, at the Club and at Scheveningen.
One of the things I had ferreted out meanwhile was to locate the headquarters for the distribution of the bad money as being at No.
We also ferreted out the significant fact that in order to gain the inner circle of the secret society, which was furnishing funds for the defense of Petto, the applicant would have to be from the town of Corleone.
Stark was a most restless spirit--had gone through every mystery in Germany, Illuminatism excepted, and had ferreted out many of Nicholai's hidden transactions.
Marius (keeper of the archives of the Electorate) has ferreted out a noble document, which we have got.
I don't think he was aware that the story of the midnight arrest had been ferreted out by an English journalist and given to the world.
Then, suddenly, the action, the hopes, came to an end with the details ferreted out by the English journalist.
Though a young man, I have ferreted out evidence, got up cases, and seen lots of life.
Burnham, who was excessively dissatisfied with the progress of affairs, swore there was an infernal mystery somewhere, and that he shouldn't sleep till he had ferreted it out.
They had not ferreted him out, nor had they stumbled upon him by accident.
If anyone ferreted him out way down here on the edge of civilization he had gambled with himself that it would be Cassidy.
I astounded my brokers by the manner in which I ferreted out neglected bonds, mines which struck the mother lode next week, railway companies whose directors were even then secretly conspiring to water the stock.
You were the man who ferreted out the truth about that West Australian combination when everybody else had failed.
Though ferreted and hunted down by the weasels the rats were not rooted out, but remained till the ash-heap was sifted and no fresh refuse deposited.
Professional ratcatchers ferreted the bank once or twice, and filled their iron cages.
The Rooster" ferretedabout until he discovered his equine friend's abode, and at the same time learnt all he cared to know about the owner.
I reckon most folks would have called us adventurers, for we'd ferreted into nearly every corner of the globe.
Passing through Corsica, he went over the house where the Emperor Napoleon was born; and, according to his habit of seeking information, he ferreted out several things that contradicted received history.
If you have ferreted two stories the first day, during the night the Rats that have not been ferreted on the lower stories may get back again to the top storey.
If all the lies could only be ferreted out with which Seward bamboozles Lincoln, even the God of Lies himself would shudder.
All this could very easily be ferreted out, but it seems that no will exists any where to bring the thieves to punishment.
Now the other party's keepers have been beating a field beyond their boundaries; now they have ferreted a bank to which they have no right.
There is something of the hangman's knack in this, which is the invariable way of killing rabbits when ferreted or caught alive; and yet it is the most merciful, for death is instantaneous.
After a 'bury' has been ferreted it is some time before another colony takes possession: this is seemingly from the intense antipathy of the rabbit to the smell of the ferret.
After a "bury" has been ferretedit is some time before another colony takes possession: this is seemingly from the intense antipathy of the rabbit to the smell of the ferret.
During this discussion of Lottie, Anna had sat listlessly looking up and down the columns of an old Herald, which Dick, Eudora's pet dog, had ferretedout from the table and deposited at her feet.
She considered for a moment whilst he ferreted amongst his clothes in the great black press beside the great white bed.
I warrant thou wouldst have ferreted them through.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ferreted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
