He was very quiet, invariably kind, but there was about him a suggestion of strain behind his composure, a hint of something terrible, as of a man hiding a mortal wound.
It was by his suggestion that they were there, and he had overruled her hesitation as to leaving Bunny with a masterly skill that had enlisted Bunny himself on his side.
It was evident that she did not mean to renew the friendly intercourse that his unwelcome suggestion had interrupted.
At first it was suggestion rather than sound, a vague murmur from the old, sad world so many millions of miles away.
But when he looked back upon that talk with her later, he could not remember that she had made a single suggestion of her own, or displayed the smallest spark of enthusiasm in connection with the great fortune that had come to her.
For while professing how absurd it was to offer any advice or suggestion on such a subject to one like myself, he entered into details, and sketched out a plan of campaign, that might well have made a chapter of Gil Blas.
The meagreness of the information would, indeed, have seemed in strong contrast to the enterprise and hazard of the escape, had I not the craft to eke it out by that process of suggestion and speculation in which I was rather an adept.
The absurdity of the suggestion was more than enough for its success.
What suggestionof cunning strategy did these sea-wolves intimate?
The postscript added a suggestion that I should write down some of the particulars of my visit to Ettenheim, but particularly of that conversation alluding to the meditated assassination of Bonaparte.
There is hardly a doubt that it was heard and used by a vast number of people who did not receive any Kodak-buying suggestion from it.
When a symbol is used as a trade-mark it is always advisable to put the suggestion of motion into it, if this can be done without the sacrifice of some other essential quality.
No objection or suggestion that can reasonably be offered, can in any way diminish our obligation, either to the original editor, or to his evidently able assistant Mr. Kernahan.
No objection or suggestion which can reasonably be offered can in any way diminish our obligation, either to the original Editor, or to his evidently able assistant, Mr. Coulson Kernahan.
At any other time he would have stormed at the bare suggestionof admitting the man to the house.
She saw by Philip's expression that there was more than a mere suggestion of truth in what Will had said, and she resolved at the first favorable opportunity to have a serious talk with him.
Even in the matter of the music, Julia had accepted more than one suggestion made by her friends, and in one or two instances she had composed the words of the lyric, while Polly had composed the music.
Her observation was keen, and more than one suggestionof hers was put into practical effect.
She is certainly very clever," Ruth had said appreciatively one day after Lois had given her a suggestion as to the proper translation of a very difficult passage.
Moreover, it was decidedly out of place for a new member like Clarissa to make a suggestion of this kind.
I mentioned the suggestion to Mr. Bruff and Betteredge--who both approved of my adopting it.
The suggestion I offered amounted briefly to this.
The swallows twittering under its broken eaves are now the only sign of life; and its rotting timbers and threshold, forgotten by the world, give no suggestion of the martial incident to which it owes its existence.
Surely thesuggestion is worthy of the attention of a MUDIE, and the consideration of a W.
Perhaps my suggestion may be adopted in the proper quarter.
It is probably the suggestion of some picture that I have seen somewhere.
But her passion for Jimmy was not even a passion, and, mad as the suggestion may appear, she was frightened for her life.
Let us hope the genial and manly young custodian, Mr. Frank Pinckly, to whose warm-hearted hospitality and that of his parents I owe grateful thanks, will consider this suggestion favorably and earn the blessing of future travellers.
To this suggestion the monk answered that he would certainly try the water some other time; but that at present the wine he had drunk might pollute its divine properties.
But he had never breathed any suggestion of the kind to Lady Coryston.
Nance fumbled her thin hands nervously and spoke with the faintest suggestion of a sob in her voice.
She had stubbornly resisted every suggestionto see her husband or allow him to see the child.
Again she caught the sinister suggestion in his tone and threw him a startled look.
She obeyed his slightest suggestion with childlike submission.
This time his answer was tinged with the slightest suggestion of amusement.
The bride watched her, fascinated by the pallor of her haggard face and the queer suggestion of Death which her appearance made in spite of the background of flowers.
She would have hedged lightly over that ugly old word which still survived in the ceremony Craddock had used, but for the sinister suggestion in his voice back of the playful banter.
He snapped at every suggestion his friend gave and with quick wit improved on it.
We no longer live in an age when any suggestionof change is deemed a sacrilege.
In Vienna there was a desire to obtain in the Balkan Peninsula, in accordance with the suggestion of Bismarck, compensation for the losses in Italy and Germany.
The suggestion was endorsed by Great Britain, which likewise objected to the San Stefano arrangements, and Bismarck declined to bring any pressure to bear on the cabinet of Vienna.
Tombs cut in the rock offer other and later models of house construction, but give no suggestion that the Etruscans had any artistic sense in architecture.
These alternate exclamations, and a suggestionof hostile intentions, borne out by the behavior of the insurgents, compelled Mlle.
The most heedless passer-by feels the depressing influences of a place where the sound of wheels creates a sensation; there is a grim look about the houses, a suggestion of a jail about those high garden walls.
There was a terrible suggestion of strength mingled with cunning in the short, brick-red crop of hair, the whole head was in harmony with his powerful frame, and at that moment the fires of hell seemed to gleam from his eyes.
Each suggestion that I made seemed to involve us in deeper perplexities.
There is nothing left of it but the walls and the gable, in which the ancient bell still hangs, intensifying the silence by its suggestion of echoes long dead.
I do not know anywhere a region where houses are so instantly and good-naturedly attractive, with a suggestion of good fellowship, and sensible, easy-going good times inside and out.
The suggestion that caution was to be used in handling this species of evidence, and that it was to be received as affording grounds of "presumption," to be corroborated or reinforced by other evidence, practically was of no avail.
Without any and against all evidence, in the license of his imagination alone, he had thrown out the suggestion that Mather attended the executions, as the ministerial comforter and counsellor of the sufferers.
The suggestion of pre-existing enmity, therefore, gives an unfair and unjust impression.
Too great a progress" conveys the suggestion that, upon the introduction of spectral evidence, there should be a delay in the proceedings of the Court, for some intermediate steps to be taken, before going on with the trial.
A family council was held, but the suggestion was unanimously denounced as a piece of sentimental folly.
The suggestion was startling, and one that I had entirely overlooked.
I had long ago grown to ridicule the suggestion that any secret had existed between them, and now felt instinctively that he was my friend.
I am aware of that," I replied, angry that he should have made such a suggestion against my well-beloved, yet remembering her strange utterances when she heard the news of impending war shouted in the street.
After he had left, it was desired, upon the suggestion of the Premier, to slightly amend one of the sentences used by Lord Warnham, and with that object I rushed after the excited interviewer.
Your suggestion is an admirable form of excuse, but, unfortunately for you, it will not hold water.
I had therefore been chosen to put a suggestion politely to his Excellency, and at the same time deliver the Earl's instructions with deference, yet so firmly that they could not be disregarded.
At this suggestion I sprang up, and dashing away along the drive, burst into the drawing-room from the lawn.
It is a strong wine, less refined in flavour than the Chambertin, and with a suggestion of bitterness.
As for the Clos de Vougeot, its characteristics are a rich ruby colour, velvety softness, a delicate bouquet, which has a slight suggestion of the raspberry.
This dinner has one suggestion for our hostesses,--it was in a boat, on a river, by torchlight.
At Tarzan's suggestion Smith-Oldwick removed the remaining water and provisions from the plane and, distributing the burden among them, they set off toward the south.
The suggestion sent a shudder through his frame but he did not hesitate or withdraw his foot.
The bones were in a fair state of preservation and indicated by their intactness that the flesh had probably been picked from them by vultures as none was broken; but the pieces of equipment bore out the suggestion of their great age.
The lions they had bested were splendid specimens themselves and in their coats Tarzan noted a suggestion of the black which was such a strongly marked characteristic of Numa of the pit.
A happy solution was arrived at by a suggestion of one of his men--that the soldiers go forth the following day and hunt for the villagers, bringing them in so much fresh meat in return for their hospitality.
Altogether the face carried the suggestion of a once strong and handsome countenance entirely altered by physical violence or by degraded habits and thoughts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suggestion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
