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Example sentences for "telltale"

Lexicographically close words:
tellin; telling; tellings; tells; tellt; tellum; tellure; telluric; telluride; telluris
  1. Kennon backed away, watching the humanoid's eyes for that telltale flicker of the pupils that gives warning of attack.

  2. Childbearing leaves telltale marks upon the body, and Copper, even if she could be concealed for the duration of her pregnancy, could never survive the sharp-eyed scrutiny of her fellows or the other humans.

  3. No more than she could keep from breathing could she prevent telling her secret, her happiness, this prairie girl; no more than she could prevent that accompanying telltale scarlet flood.

  4. Telltale with its litter of dust and grass stems, it hung there now; and unconsciously he scowled at the recollection it suggested.

  5. Against his will now and then a muscle contracted nervously; and of a sudden he thrust the telltale member deep into his trousers pocket.

  6. The lids fluttered as if to clear his vision, but even then his gaze was filmed with a telltale shadow.

  7. The moment Dan heard his companion draw breath with a telltale regularity, he sat up again in his blankets.

  8. Steadying the keg with one hand and holding his gun alert, he descended into the first trough and climbed to the next ridge, meaning to traverse the mile of broken surface, thus setting a granite wall between him and the telltale wagon.

  9. Arrived at the second ridge, which was still in darkness, he took pains that no telltale sign should be left on the smooth expanse of granite to indicate the near presence of a man.

  10. He took the handkerchief from Connie, staring at the telltale markings.

  11. For one moment Margaret gazed into the man's face with startled eyes; then she turned and covered her own telltale face with her hands--and because it was a telltale face, Spencer took a long stride toward her.

  12. His gaze was fixed on her face, with its telltale evidences of agitation.

  13. Wade felt the momentousness of that query, but it seemed her face had been telltale enough, without confirmation of words.

  14. Dore felt divined; she laughed, conscious of a telltale color.

  15. She was instantly struck with the intensity of the emotion that consumed him, which laid the telltale shadows of its fatigue in the hollows about his eyes and the stern drawn lines of his mouth.

  16. He was sure he had seen a telltale scurrying around the smaller of the dead cubs.

  17. A telltale hang of one leg, that to which the chain has been fastened, is an unfailing sign, but Vidocq had not been coupled long enough to show this.

  18. This was strengthened by other telltale facts.

  19. Dropping on one knee, he repeated his formula, number by number, each time listening for the telltale click of the falling ward.

  20. He hurriedly picked himself up, flung every tool and instrument that remained in the dingy basement into his capacious club bag, and carefully coiled and wrapped every foot of telltale wire.

  21. With the knife hidden in his bosom he returned home, determined to destroy the weapon, with its telltale rust of blood, on the first opportunity.

  22. How do I know who may have picked that up, with its cursed, telltale sentence?

  23. When the lashes again drooped, soft, telltale shadows quivered beneath the dark fringe that hid her impassioned joy.

  24. Only her telltale color and her eyes confessed the exciting dreams which were filling her innocent brain.

  25. But Lorraine and the telltale hoofprints by the rock compelled him to believe that it was not an accident.

  26. He seemed to be watching her covertly, yet she failed to catch any telltale admiration for her in his scrutiny.

  27. Then it was only necessary to use the soap once to wash his hands, and the telltale line between the two halves would disappear.

  28. When McQuade had got through it was perfectly clear to the court that someone within the house had left the telltale marks on the roof and window sills and it seemed pretty conclusively shown that that someone was myself.

  29. Their minds were concentrated upon the telltale bullets.

  30. They wanted the telltale bullets that were capable of sending their fellow gangster, him of the masked face, to the electric chair or to prison for life.

  31. And most of the untidiness was caused by telltale bits of red, yellow, and green paper.

  32. There were ways of shrouding the telltale transoms and--without doubt--the members of the advanced junior classes had learned such little tricks of the trade of being a schoolgirl.

  33. If she had turned on her light, she would have discovered two telltale bits of evidence, for Helen had left a very moist handkerchief on her desk and another rolled into a damp, vindictive little wad on the chiffonier.

  34. It was a real face which I had seen pressed against the window, and where had Ray been when he returned with sand-clogged boots and the telltale seaweed upon his trousers?

  35. Her voice had grown sharper and less pleasant, her carefully arranged hair was in some disorder, and the telltale blue veins by her temples and the crow's feet under her eyes were plainly visible.

  36. I sprang upstairs, and before I had reached it heard the telltale clicks.

  37. I was told the Dodans came up and saw me, heard the telltale clicks of the register, and unnoticed left me.

  38. It was the last link in the deadly evidence--the automatic with its telltale stain, the scissors, the tress of hair, and Marette Radisson.

  39. Kent visioned it as it must look from the shore--a telltale blotch of light traveling through the darkness.

  40. As the door opened and closed behind him, the flash of humor leaped into Kent's eyes again, and he chuckled even as he wiped another of the telltale stains of blood from his lips.

  41. Her voice rang out like music, and her telltale eyes caught his, with a glance as passionate as his own.

  42. The suggestive white or dingy fragments upon its cap, it is true, would alone arouse his suspicions, but in the examination of the stem for the telltale volva or cup its verification might be somewhat in doubt.

  43. We cannot long deceive the world, for that other self, who ever stands in the shadow of ourselves holding the scales of justice, that telltale in the soul, rushes to the eye or into the manner and betrays us.

  44. With a sensation of defeat and despair she stared down at the telltale characters--the first letters in Mr. Shei's other name.

  45. She reached out a hand to obliterate the telltale pencilings, but something restrained her.

  46. She brought Ross in quite casually; yet--What is the mystery of the telltale penumbra round the written word?


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