Smooth, sweet, and false; to watch the tell-tale eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference

The tell-tale color rose under Rosemary's smooth skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rainbow Hill] Reference

The thumb is a great tell-tale where character is concerned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cupology How to Be Entertaining] Reference

"You love him," said the stranger, reading the tell-tale blush.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

Her eyes, half glad, half shy, wholly tell-tale, fall before his own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference

The most minute differences are infallibly registered in tell-tale words.    From Wordnik.com.  [By the Christmas Fire] Reference

Let's hope that putting it there left tell-tale turd on someone's balaclava.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where will Real IRA threats lead? Not very far] Reference

You are a worse duffer than I thought, though I don't think you are a tell-tale. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Scholarship Boy] Reference

No tell-tale paper-and-ink witness will ever appear against them by their own acts!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oaths, Signs, Ceremonies and Objects of the Ku-Klux-Klan. A Full Expose. By A Late Member] Reference

"Here's where his horse slipped," and he pointed to the tell-tale marks on the trail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X] Reference

 The tell-tale lesions from her wrists to halfway up her forearm told me her sad story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zombicil] Reference

"Well, what about this?" questioned Joe, as he looked in silence at the tell-tale marks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference

According to the researchers, the bones have the tell-tale marks of being cut with a tool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Study Suggests Earlier Meat-Eating In Hominids] Reference

Water damage can be hard to detect, but there are some tell-tale signs you should be aware of.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to spot a flood-damaged car] Reference

The "tell-tale" signs of autism, the few I was aware of back then, did not fit Emma's profile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ariane Zurcher: Our Emma and Autism] Reference

Myra's face crimsoned and her tell-tale eyes dropped, then lifted again, twinkling like twin stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference

It had certainly given the impression that he suspected the beginning of certain tell-tale symptoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juggernaut] Reference

The love poems had in themselves been equivalent to an avowal of passion even without her tell-tale blushes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference

A persistent cough that lasts weeks is the tell-tale symptom of the illness, which is also known as pertussis.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Whooping Cough Epidemic On Track To Break 55-Year Record] Reference

With the tell-tale hands behind her back, Sister Marion stood before her, intervening between her and the bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

Accepting that a virus might be difficult to detect in your own mind, what tell-tale signs might you look out for?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clay Farris Naff: Is Religion Good for Us? Former Dawkins Acolyte Now Says Yes!] Reference

Without waiting for the second warning, he led the way, opened another secret door, and removed the tell-tale fuse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet] Reference

He roused himself, brushed away the tell-tale tear with a quick movement of his right arm and whipped up his horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference

His quick, restless, eager eyes had noted the tell-tale signs of mischief about him before he hazarded that remark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference

For a long time Midas managed to hide the tell-tale ears from everyone; but at last a servant discovered the secret.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference

She was an astute reader of her fellows, with an eye too searching to be deceived by the removal of tell-tale rings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference

After a week or two it may develop into a very severe cough, which sometimes gives way to a tell-tale “WHOOP” sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [California faces worst whooping cough epidemic in 50 years] Reference

"I think so myself," returned the leader of the five boys, gravely surveying the tell-tale marks in the dust of the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School] Reference

I stayed in the shadow of the trees, beside the knoll, and spied out the landscape, and listened for any tell-tale sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Border Ghost Stories] Reference

” Indeed, many of the tell-tale signs common to liars, like fidgeting and sweating, can also be signs of ordinary anxiety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Ways To Tell If Someone Is Lying To You] Reference

I sheltered my tell-tale face behind a friendly paper, and distracted myself with an impartial view of the surrounding country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference

"I don't know," said Betty with a tell-tale blush that made Miss Ferris laugh and say, "I thought you were at the bottom of it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Betty Wales Senior] Reference

Then, standing outside, he took up the bayonet and mounted guard, first carefully hiding the tell-tale bottle behind a box of bricks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly] Reference

Brian's eyes at once seek her where she stands beside the open window, her fingers playing nervously with the tell-tale scrap of paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Only an Irish Girl] Reference