"Clue in" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Eh! It leaves the mystery deeper than ever, unless monsieur can find some clue in those parts of the ...
— The Guest of Quesnay • Booth Tarkington
... malicious regard. The cry of the pursuers had a suggestive sound; occasionally as one fell the shriek that reached Stannum plucked at his heart, for it was a cry of human distress. He went down the mountain, but lost his way, his only clue in the obscurity of the ...
— Melomaniacs • James Huneker
... from a dying Frenchman who was landed in his last hours at Falmouth. The man mentioned no names, but the tale set the captain inquiring and he picked up the clue in Bristol. But 'twas in north Ireland that he had the whole truth and a chart ...
— The Path of the King • John Buchan
... heart." The blaze of the Scarlet Letter compels us by a strange magnetic power to follow Hester Prynne wherever she goes, but her suffering is less acute and her character less intricate than her lover's. She bears the outward badge of shame, but after "wandering without a clue in the dark labyrinth of mind," wins a dull respite from anguish as she glides "like a grey and sober shadow" over the threshold of those who are visited by sorrow. At the last, when Dimmesdale's spirit is "so shattered and subdued that it could hardly hold ...
— The Tale of Terror • Edith Birkhead
... Cape Rouge, &c., to the last, which is dated on board the Sutherland, off St. Nicholas, Sept. 12th, the day before the scaling the heights of Abraham; no doubt the last issued by Woolfe, as on that day (13th) he fell in battle. There is no clue in the MS. to its compiler; it consists of 103 pages 4to., beautifully written, with MS. Plan of Order of Battle, of the army commanded by General Woolfe in America, 1789. It is believed that no printed copy ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 238, May 20, 1854 • Various
... about the ultimate results of his undertaking, but Pepys furnishes the necessary clue in his diary for September, 1668—'23d. At noon comes Mr Evelyn to me, about some business with the office, and there in discourse tell me of his loss, to the value of L500, which he hath met with in a late attempt of making of bricks upon an adventure with others, ...
— Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) - Or A Discourse of Forest Trees • John Evelyn
... books upon my shelves. Often enough, following some outrage by the brilliant Chinese doctor whose genius was directed to the discovery of new and unique death agents, we had obtained a clue in those works of a scientific nature which bulk largely in the library of a medical man. There are creatures, there are drugs, which, ordinarily innocuous, may be so employed as to become inimical to human life; and ...
— The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer |
