It seemed to her that, for all her foreboding, she had not till this moment had the smallest inkling of what was now before her; and at his muttered: "Must we have the old fossils in?
And for the first time an inkling of the great comic equipoise in Floodgate Street and human affairs stole on Nedda's consciousness.
Frances Candler, keeping watch on the up-town wires, had caught the first inkling of this relieving news.
Some vague and gently disturbing inklingof just how much a woman could become to a man, however preoccupied, crept into the quieter backgrounds of his consciousness.
It is likely that Nate told him where we were going, and since he knew that we were good friends, might have given him an inkling of the business that we were here on.
When you come to the camp, do not let on that you are already acquainted with us, because if we are to work together we can do a lot better if there is no inkling of our acquaintance.
Of course we shall give no inklingof the nature of our visit, not even to the manager, at least until we have sized him up.
Late the fifth afternoon of his stay in the house of Minglapo, Romney got the first inkling of the real business at hand.
Then you think what he heard here was not all, but merely an added inklingto the full understanding.
The whole enterprise, the capture of the prisoners, the burning of Louis Creal's store, had been carried out without the Indian's obtaining an inkling of that which was going forward.
Out of the darkness grew the shadowy outlines of four laden canoes, and the beaching of the craft was the first inkling Abe Dodds, who held the left defences, had of the adventure.
I guess I do get an inkling of what you mean by making a thing.
Untouched by the contagious malady himself, nevertheless he would have married her if he had had the slightest inkling of what she contemplated.
You suspected him, but gave him no inkling of your suspicions, yet when you wanted to enter one of his rooms he refused to allow you.
In accordance with Dora's instructions I hailed a cab, and although she would give me no inkling of our destination, she ordered the man to drive with all haste to Paddington.
Many hairbrained youths started out on a mere cutter; but I was prudent, and besides I had some inkling of the serious affairs that were ahead.
Perhaps some hint, some inkling of my sufferings might reach their ears.
And then she proceeded to give Jack a narrative from which, as the tale was unfolded, he gained more than an inkling of Don Miguel's designs.
His expression was severe and uncompromising, especially with the peasants of Mokroe, but he had the power of assuming the most obsequious countenance, when he had an inkling that it was to his interest.
The proprietor of the store, getting an inkling of the joke, hunted up a small frame which, with the help of a mat, answered very well.
As he thought of it, he felt he had an inkling of why Thomas Gilpin had done as he did.
For Quimby, with all his obtusity, had an inkling of the power of mystery, and was already far enough on the road to love to be jealous.
Would there be any possibilities of gathering from the conversation of this additional person some vague inkling of the struggle that had broken out so vividly at his waking moment?
Everywhere this trouble of disarmament was in the air, with a quality of immediate stress of which he had no inkling during his seclusion in the Wind-Vane quarter.
The dais was remote in the greatness of the area; it would have looked a mere slab of metal had it not been for the group of seven men who stood about a table on it, and gave an inkling of its proportions.
There was an inkling of some vast inheritance already in his mind--a vast inheritance perhaps misapplied--of some unprecedented importance and opportunity.
Not to those, however, who had previously had some inkling of the secret history of Spiritualism, and who for years had looked for the day of its inevitable confounding.
This lying book of Mrs. Underhill's, notwithstanding its abominable object, does give some slight inkling of the truth here and there.
He had hardly begun to get an inkling as to the true state of affairs when one of his hands, in seeking to get a firmer hold, chanced to come in contact with something cold and hard.
It was this potent fact that gave Perk his first inkling as to the identity of the man with whom he struggled.
If she had an inkling that we were forcing her to marry Hugh she would fiercely resent it.
Is it quite impossible for you to give me any inkling concerning this astounding affair?
Even the vapours rising from the gutters, now running again, gave an inkling of greening meadows and bursting boughs.
If he had an inkling of how things are with you, he would have come to fetch you long ago.
And the colonel's opponent stuck the card in his pocket evidently without the least inkling of the ominous import of the formality.
But if you can possibly give us an inklingwhat it's all about, then consider me down on my knees and begging you to do just that!
And then aninkling of the truth cut through his brain.
However, not one word was dropped that gave them so much as an inkling as to why they were in Washington.
Certainly I must not let her have an inkling of the fact that she could really do any harm.
A brief and passing glance from the street would have given a stranger no inkling of the state of affairs.
Miss Fraenkel looked at each of us for an instant to catch some inkling of our behaviour.
Seeing that I had no inkling of his thought he remarked with some slight irritation: "Wonder when the deuce that chap's coming back?
After this Sir Arthur, finding it impossible to get any inkling of the mystery from Carol, asked Dora if she could tell him the meaning of it, and she too turned white.
During the afternoon something had gone wrong and no one yet, save "Cookie" Wilson, had an inkling of what had plunged the foreman into one of his ill-tempered fits.
He got an inkling of one from an unexpected quarter, Blenham's lips.
We had an idea that an inkling of it had got abroad, so we thought it best to keep quiet for a few nights, lest the Philistines should be on the watch.
Roland was in high feather, throwing his haughty glances everywhere, for he had an inkling of what was to be the termination of the affair, and did not conceal his triumph.
Mr. Galloway in the most unbounded astonishment, for not an inkling of Roland's long-thought-of project had ever reached him.
As soon as old Quirk had obtained an inkling of Titmouse's taste in these matters, he afforded him many opportunities of gratifying it.
Neither Lady De la Zouch nor my son will have the least inkling of the matter.
