Her eyes, ferretingin Audrey's black, completed the communication.
He knew, then, this ferreting and divinatory Irishman!
They seem especially to value your ability in running down crookedness and ferretingout criminals," pursued the master mechanic.
I rely a great deal upon your ability already displayed in ferreting out mysteries, and on your good, solid, common sense in going to work cautiously and intelligently on a proposition.
So you see they've every inducement to do a lot of ferreting that a ship's officers (with other work on hand) would not dream about.
Kettle felt an unimaginative man's complacency in ferreting out such a dramatic scheme, and began to think next upon the somewhat important detail of how to get proofs before he commenced to frustrate it.
It was barely a week since he had been out with Hurd on another ferreting expedition, some of the proceeds of which were still hidden in Patton's outhouse.
As the stir of nerve and blood caused by the ferreting subsided, his spirits began to sink.
Or was it that the eyes and hopes of the people were centred upon the new arrival in town, the great detective--as they were led to believe--who had grown famous through his skill in ferreting out just such mysteries.
His boldness and genius for ferreting out mysteries were known to them all, and they had paid him the compliment of studying his methods carefully.
Having thoroughly impressed on his mind the importance of the case and my determination to win the esteem of the company by ferreting out the thief, if possible, I started him for Montgomery, where he arrived in due time.
The system of ferreting out losses, or, rather, its process, is a science, and one that to succeed must be closely studied.
It is not possible for the department to instruct an agent in the particular means to be employed in discovering the exact locality of an ascertained robbery of the mail, or in ferreting out and arresting the perpetrators.
The particular means to be used in discovering the exact locality of a theft from the mails or in ferreting out and arresting the perpetrators, are left entirely to their intelligence, vigilance, and ingenuity.
However, when a man has devoted his life to ferreting out information, the habit of ferreting is apt to be very strong upon him; so I pass the time of day to my fancy-stationer, and then begins to ferret.
But those who regularly visit the bulb farms can obtain the finest roots of the year, although it may be necessary to select from many sources.
But the splendour of the flower will continue to insure for it a high degree of favour as a decorative subject for the conservatory.
Many other combinations will occur to those who carefully study colour schemes.
We will propose a practical rule that we have followed in growing Melons for seed, of which a large crop of the most perfect fruits is absolutely needful to insure a fair return.
It reminds me of the Brighton mystery, in which I played a modest part some ten years ago, when I first took up ferreting as a profession.
I have frequently utilized with success in peculiar and difficult cases the services of men whom I knew to be common-sense persons, with a natural taste for ferreting out mysteries, but who were not detectives at all.
Then he will roam across the open, and by-and-by reach the hedges, where in the ditch some water is sure to be found in winter, when ferreting is carried on.
After January the guns are laid aside, though some ferreting is still going on.
I don't know what he has found out, but I object to his ferreting into my affairs.
Rolfe nevertheless made a conscientious search, shifting the lumber about and ferreting into dark corners, without result.
Riley, I will say that you're a wonder at using the organization in ferreting out such things.
Anyway, they spent an hour in ferreting about in my car, and even searched my two darkies, on the possibility that the true letters had been passed on to them.
But this was not the case; and during the entire day succeeding, the midshipmen and others were engaged in ferreting them out of their hiding-places on shore, and bringing them off in scattered detachments to the ship.
He asks himself: "Shall I neglect this troubled child to engage in ferretingout crime?
They had decided that any attempt of Oswald atferreting out these crimes would be dangerous.
By the way, that was very creditable work of yours, ferreting out the bond robbers.
It was the one that contained the bonds which had been presented to Harry for his service in ferreting out the burglars in the wood.
I'm ferreting for Mr Soames's cheque for twenty pounds," said Mr Toogood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ferreting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
