My sleuth is thinner, blonder, and younger than I am, and I like it that way. From Wordnik.com. [Desperately Seeking | The Stiletto Gang] Reference
The word sleuth Barry Popik seems to have found the earliest known publisheduse of the term in its figurative sense. From Wordnik.com. [The Grammarphobia Blog » Blog Archive » The gold diggers of Broadway] Reference
Skeptical of the whole "good works" thing, he volunteered to usher in order to "sleuth" the real truth behind all the love-talk. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
However, this sleuth will be persistently shadowed. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
I'd like to be a sleuth-houn 'or a bloody buccaneer!. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
What sleuth-hounds women are in matters of the heart!. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
The sleuth-hound instinct of one Frederick is indicated. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 25, 1919] Reference
Trunks are first taken, accompanied by that assistant sleuth. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
That assistant sleuth who had trailed the Laniers from Southampton to. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
But "Bed-bug Brown," perennial picnicker, was not a scientific sleuth. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California] Reference
Guests and staff play sleuth to tunes like "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue.". From Wordnik.com. [A Crasher's Guide To New Year's Eve, From Coast To Coast] Reference
"I might have known you for a sleuth hound who would guard every avenue.". From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
"All we've got to do now is to play the sleuth when he leaves the cabin.". From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference
Flambe is a 14-year-old chef, runs his own restaurant, and is a super-sleuth. From Wordnik.com. [Teen Chef Is On The Case In New Mystery Series] Reference
"You could not do better: I have the scent of a sleuth-hound for antiquities.". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
If you're a good Internet sleuth, you can find hopefully your doctor's e-mail. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2008] Reference
"Save me, save me," shrieghed the stranger, "the sleuth hounds are at my heels.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827] Reference
And, all the while, the officer wondered how he was going to deal with his sleuth-hound. From Wordnik.com. [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference
And who is the swift "avenger of blood" who is following close as a sleuth-hound on thy track?. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book] Reference
Greene is a revengeful sleuth-hound, tracking his victim down relentlessly from place to place. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
Through it all, interestingly, there is no guiding narrative intelligence or clue-reading sleuth. From Wordnik.com. [Dangerous and Strange] Reference
Mankell is unlikely to see the sort of liberties taken with his sleuth that Conan Doyle has borne. From Wordnik.com. [After Wallander: a new generation of Scandinavian detectives takes over] Reference
But she was too preoccupied with the importance of the discovery to dwell on his gifts as a sleuth. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Gold] Reference
He was energetic and resolute as a sleuth hound on the scent; so he soon made one or two discoveries. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
The new owner of the Soda Shoppe was not one of these, and went constantly to visit the incarcerated sleuth. From Wordnik.com. [The Roman Twin] Reference
Naomi Hirahara grew-up near L.A., and draws upon her Japanese-American roots to create a different kind of sleuth. From Wordnik.com. [Mas Arai: An Unlikely Hero Solves L.A.'s Mysteries] Reference
At around this time each year, I transform from mild-mannered English professor to take-no-prisoners literary sleuth. From Wordnik.com. [It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Plagiarism Buster] Reference
Only perhaps 16-year-old Polly Hedgerow, who's described as gossip or a sleuth, maybe can help put the pieces together. From Wordnik.com. [Further Under the Radar: More Books Not to Miss] Reference
She might be surprised now that I am the author of seven mystery novels featuring a sleuth who is a memory-trick expert. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
His adventures as an amateur sleuth, which begin when he autopsies a dead woman pulled from a nearby river, are drolly rendered. From Wordnik.com. [Books in Brief] Reference
My grand anxiety was to hide or blind the trail, and by this means baffle the sleuth hounds, who were by this time in full pursuit. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
Fulfil quickly my behest, and once more remember: betray Nika, and like a sleuth-hound I will track thee, and like a fury slay thee! '. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Jules Kroll, the onetime corporate sleuth, acquired boutique credit-rater Lace Financial as part of his bid to take on incumbent firms. From Wordnik.com. [What's News: Business] Reference
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