"Clue" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... they won't start to search for me until some time to-morrow. When I don't show up at the game they'll think it's queer, and I suppose they'll fine me. I wouldn't mind that if they only come and find me. But how can they do it? There isn't a clue they could follow, as far as I know. ...
— Baseball Joe in the Big League - or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles • Lester Chadwick
... a queer communication, and only the fact of my chance meeting with the youngster in the Rue de Roi gave me anything like a clue as to ...
— My Sword's My Fortune - A Story of Old France • Herbert Hayens
... cast about vainly for a clue to the other's whereabouts; for if the night was thick in the open, here in the trench its density was as that of the pit; the man could distinguish positively nothing more than a pallid rift ...
— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph
... assure you. But you give me so slight a clue. Are you quite sure she is not in America ...
— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... I have one clue, and only one. I know his handwriting. If he puts his new false name upon a hotel register and does not disguise it too much, it will be valuable to me if I ...
— A Double Barrelled Detective Story • Mark Twain
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