Franklin Blake agrees to Miss Clack's proposal, on the understanding that she will kindly consider this
intimation of his consent as closing the correspondence between them."
In the Sketches from Memory Hawthorne gives an
intimation of the tale which he might write and did afterward write of The Great Carbuncle.
It sent him into the trees again--into the lower terrace where he could watch the ground below and catch with ears and nose the first
intimation of actual contact with his quarry.
But as we cannot possibly divine what complection our reader may be of, and as it will be some time before he will hear any more of Jenny, we think proper to give him a very early
intimation, that Mr Allworthy was, and will hereafter appear to be, absolutely innocent of any criminal intention whatever.
And must not the soul be perplexed at this
intimation which the sense gives of a hard which is also soft?
There was scarcely an
intimation of movement from the pit.
During all that time not the slightest
intimation reached me of Alicia's whereabouts.
'And he asked after you again,' said Matilda, in spite of her sister's silent but imperative
intimation that she should hold her tongue.
The first
intimation that either had of the presence of strangers in camp was the sudden appearance of a half-dozen ragged villains about them.
This Dialogue contains the first
intimation of the doctrine of reminiscence and of the immortality of the soul.
With this
intimation, and with the customary messages, the letter, abruptly and confusedly, came to an end.
I did not reflect that a man who could fail in his duty to his King, his father-in-law, and his benefactor, might, without scruple, do the same to a stranger, though distinguished as his friend; and thus sanguine and unsuspecting continued my journey, still receiving
intimation from all parts to take care of myself.