We shall trace the growth of these ideas from their first vague beginnings.

The image was at first vague, but it grew thereafter steadily in clarity.

His first vague theory of the case had already gone completely to smash.

An idea, at first vague and uncertain, was gradually being changed into certainty.

The stars were paling; on the horizon were the first vague hints of dawn.

The first vague glow of dawn had sparked the far end of the sky.

His discomfort, at first vague, kept increasing, and finally took on a definite form.

Ahead, the blinding murk was stirring, the first vague forms of the First's terrain emerging.

In Stanistreet's rooms it took its first vague shape.

All at once Don's mind, groping, searching, caught the first vague outline of an idea.

The first vague sense of feeling an unknown living obstacle in the dark came in 185l.

But his suspicions, at first vague, were now aroused by her very silence into more certainty.

And with that his first vague perception of evil and wrong in the world began to dawn.

From experience, he would recognize the first vague blurring, narrowing of vision, and other signs of anoxia.

Such are some of the first vague suggestions of a realm of power and knowledge not yet explored.

His face, which had been at first vague and heavy with sleep, began to recover its natural expression.