"Clews" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Why doth she that? I seek for cause—I yearn for clews; The subject of the pussy cat Doth endlessly inspire the mews. Why doth a pussy cat? Ah, me, I haven't got the ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... watching him with rather wide eyes and a face of unhealthy pallor; but that might very well be because of the awe which the youngster felt in beholding Hal Dozier, the manhunter, at close range. All these things were decidedly small clews, but the marshal was accustomed ...
— Way of the Lawless • Max Brand
... discovered on the beach of a low islet famed as a haunt of pelicans, the corpse of a child. Some locks of bright hair still adhering to the skull, a string of red beads, a white muslin dress, a handkerchief broidered with the initials "A.L.B.,"—were secured as clews; and the little body was interred ...
— Chita: A Memory of Last Island • Lafcadio Hearn
... in detail the clews which Selphar had given as to the whereabouts of the wanderer. Her trances, just at this time, were somewhat scarce and fragmentary, and the information she had professed to give had come in snatches and very imperfectly,—the trance being apt to end ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 • Various
... were related at greater length, and it was said that several promising clews were being followed, but no details were given concerning the work of ...
— Messenger No. 48 • James Otis
... be leaving town then," went on the agent. "I can't get any more clews here, and there may be some new ones found on the Canadian border where my colleagues are trying to catch the rascals. I'm sorry I bothered you, Tom Swift. You certainly have a fine lot of airships," he added, for he had been taken through the shop, and shown the ...
— Tom Swift and his Great Searchlight • Victor Appleton
... black night in the mid-Atlantic, when we were beating up against a stiff breeze, coming on deck near midnight, just as the ship was put about. When a ship is tacking, the tacks and sheets (ropes which confine the clews or lower corners of the sails) are let run, in order that the yards may be swung round to meet the altered position of the ship. They must then be hauled taut again, and belayed, or secured, in order to keep the sails in their place ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Number 9, July, 1858 • Various
... is a special work but it also is a very indefinite work. There is a movement afoot, but of its nature, and purpose, I at this moment am entirely ignorant. I am here to discover clews." ...
— The Loyalist - A Story of the American Revolution • James Francis Barrett
... all his movements. Laura, we must get out of this. There happens to be something else in the world for me to do than to sit around and follow up murder clews." ...
— Initials Only • Anna Katharine Green
... in the direction of the river. Following such faint clews as he could find, Nick continued the ...
— The Crime of the French Cafe and Other Stories • Nicholas Carter
... comprehensive and so fair. For Hooker had to defend much that was indefensible: he had to defend a great traditional system, just convulsed by a most tremendous shock—a shock and alteration, as Bacon says, "the greatest and most dangerous that can be in a State," in which old clews and habits and rules were confused and all but lost; in which a frightful amount of personal incapacity and worthlessness had, from sheer want of men, risen to the high places of the Church; and in which force and violence, sometimes of the most hateful kind, had come to be accepted ...
— Bacon - English Men Of Letters, Edited By John Morley • Richard William Church
... warned by the footprints of time, Mrs. Eddy pauses in her revision of Genesis to wonder "whence came the wife of Cain?" But on the whole she profits by the story of Cain, for here she finds one of those little etymological clews which never escape her penetration. The fact that Adam and all his race were but a dream of mortal mind is proved, she says, by the fact that Cain went "to dwell in the land of Nod, the land ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 • Various
... drug and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in following out those clews, and clearing up those mysteries, which had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time to time I heard some vague account of his doings; of his summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes - Detective Stories • Various
... over during the meal and for two hours afterward, but none could reach any conclusion regarding the identity of the little strangers. All agreed that the best thing to do would be to look for more clews as soon as ...
— On the Trail of Pontiac • Edward Stratemeyer
... had her twin sister; so had the brother whose claims lay counter to that sister's. Both must have been known to these people, their persons, their history and the circumstances of their supposed deaths. The clews thus afforded must prove invaluable to him. From them he must soon be able to ascertain in which story to place faith and which claimant to believe. He might have interrogated his hostess, but feared to show his interest in the supposed stranger. He preferred to wait ...
— The Chief Legatee • Anna Katharine Green |
