Thers was no mistaking his
innuendo, and Saxon felt her cheeks flaming.
Anyhow, he-- eventually--married her." There were volumes of
innuendo in the way the "eventually" was spaced, and each syllable given its due stress.
Lydgate," said Rosamond, not without a touch of
innuendo.
With this cutting
innuendo, Tom jumped down from his bough, and threw a stone with a "hoigh!" as a friendly attention to Yap, who had also been looking on while the eatables vanished, with an agitation of his ears and feelings which could hardly have been without bitterness.
What is the universal sense of want and ignorance, but the fine
innuendo by which the soul makes its enormous claim?
He read another article, too, a financial one, which alluded to Bentham and Mill, and dropped some
innuendoes reflecting on the ministry.
Their chatter, their laughter, their good-humoured
innuendoes, above all, their flashes and flickerings of envy, revived Tess's spirits also; and, as the evening wore on, she caught the infection of their excitement, and grew almost gay.
'But they don't speak openly to me about such things: it is only by hints and
innuendoes, and by what I hear others say, that I knew what they think.'
Joseph had instilled into him a pride of name, and of his lineage; he would, had he dared, have fostered hate between him and the present owner of the Heights: but his dread of that owner amounted to superstition; and he confined his feelings regarding him to muttered
innuendoes and private comminations.
Sedley fancies that she is growing insolent and ungrateful, and, as the guilty thief who fears each bush an officer, sees threatening
innuendoes and hints of capture in all the girl's speeches and answers.
I determined to commence a series of covert insinuations, or
innuendoes, about the oblong box--just to let him perceive, gradually, that I was NOT altogether the butt, or victim, of his little bit of pleasant mystification.
I knew this was all pointed at me; and these, and all similar
innuendoes, affected me far more deeply than any open accusations would have done; for against the latter I should have been roused to speak in my own defence: now I judged it my wisest plan to subdue every resentful impulse, suppress every sensitive shrinking, and go on perseveringly, doing my best; for, irksome as my situation was, I earnestly wished to retain it.