1 On this hint we all rose to depart.
2 It was the certainty of this fact that impelled me to offer the hint.
3 Apart from any inclinations of my own, I understood Wemmick's hint now.
4 I begged Mr. Pumblechook to remember that nothing was to be ever said or hinted, on that point.
5 Having thought of the matter with care, I approached my subject as if I had never hinted at it before.
6 He never smoked so late, and it seemed to hint to me that he wanted comforting, for some reason or other.
7 But he never justified himself by a hint tending that way, or tried to bend the past out of its eternal shape.
8 He appeared to me to have obscurely hinted in his letter at some distant idea he had of seeing you in England here.
9 Rather alarmed by this summary action, I was for a little delay, and even hinted that our friend himself might be difficult to deal with.
10 The morning hurry and flutter had been great; for, long and anxiously as I had waited for Wemmick, his hint had come like a surprise at last.
11 I thought it best to hint, through the medium of a meditative look, that this might be occasioned by circumstances over which I had no control.
12 But there was nothing to be done, saving to communicate to Wemmick what I had that night found out, and to remind him that we waited for his hint.
13 I reminded him of the false hopes into which I had lapsed, the length of time they had lasted, and the discovery I had made: and I hinted at the danger that weighed upon my spirits.
14 When we got back, he had the hardihood to tell me that he wished my sister could have known I had done her so much honor, and to hint that she would have considered it reasonably purchased at the price of her death.
15 Yet he was as submissive to a word of advice as if he had been in constant terror; for, when we ran ashore to get some bottles of beer into the boat, and he was stepping out, I hinted that I thought he would be safest where he was, and he said.
16 I further mentioned that as I had been brought up a blacksmith in a country place, and knew very little of the ways of politeness, I would take it as a great kindness in him if he would give me a hint whenever he saw me at a loss or going wrong.
17 Keeping Miss Havisham in the background at a great distance, I still hinted at the possibility of my having competed with him in his prospects, and at the certainty of his possessing a generous soul, and being far above any mean distrusts, retaliations, or designs.
Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.