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"Clew" Quotes from Famous Books

... asked himself where he had seen such an eye and brow and shambling walk as that; and he fell into a brown study and groped among many years for the clew. ...

— It Is Never Too Late to Mend • Charles Reade

... so, making sail with all possible speed, got clear away. Meantime a shot had brought the Norfolk to on the Falmouth's starboard bow, where she was immediately boarded. On her decks an ominous state of things prevailed. Her crew would not assist to clew up the sails, the anchor had been seized to the chain-plates and could not be let go, and when the gang from the Falmouth attempted to cut the buoy ropes with which it was secured, the "crew attacked them with hatchets ...

— The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore • John R. Hutchinson

... about, anyhow?" asked Jim Cranby. "I ain't heard nothing about it." He had stood in open-mouthed perplexity trying to catch a clew. Coming ...

— Other Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland

... who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain? The unfinished window in Aladdin's ...

— Yesterdays with Authors • James T. Fields

... sent the warning to me. I called on him, learned the plans of Bill and Jed, and we sent for the detectives. The latter, we learned, were about to make an arrest anyhow, but it was of the men who really printed the bogus tickets. They hadn't a clew, as yet, to Bill and Jed, who were the real backers of the game. The detectives came on, disguised themselves with us, and we caught the scoundrels in the very act. Now ...

— Joe Strong The Boy Fire-Eater - The Most Dangerous Performance on Record • Vance Barnum

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