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Meanings of slightest clew in English

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Usage of slightest clew in English
1
They had not the slightest clew to Ascott's haunts or associates.
Mistress and Maid: A Household Story
2
An examination of the room showed nothing whatever that would afford the slightest clew.
Colonel Thorndyke's Secret
3
Neither hair, dress, nor conversation affords the slightest clew, and you are left to guess.
The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
4
But whether I had drifted above or below the causeway I had not the slightest clew to tell.
Army Life in a Black Regiment
5
Our messengers have been sent in every direction without discovering the slightest clew to his-fate, gloomily replied the judge.
For Woman's Love
6
Not the slightest clew to the murder could be found for several weeks, and the mystery seemed to be impenetrable.
The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster / With an Essa...
7
The detectives were of opinion that the house had been entered, but there was not the slightest clew to the burglars.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12...
8
Frost's advice to hold fast any slightest clew, and felt that possibly this word might, in the future, prove a beginning.
Who Goes There? / The Story of a Spy in the Civil War
9
Yet who the assailant might be, neither Dr. Mead nor the broken raving of Warrington seemed to afford even the slightest clew.
Guy Garrick
10
I hope we shall lay hands upon them one day, but so far I may say frankly we have not the slightest clew.
Colonel Thorndyke's Secret
11
It is only an intuition, and so far I have failed to find the slightest clew. We were just stepping out upon the sidewalk.
The Iron Heel
12
She has repeatedly told me my thoughts when they were upon subjects to which she could not by any possibility have had the slightest clew.
Men, Women, and Ghosts
13
We all three put our heads together over them, myself without the slightest clew as to what was coming, but not unprepared for violent crime.
Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman
14
Of course it would be foolish to give any one the slightest clew to our ever being here, and of what we did while here!
Polly of Pebbly Pit
15
"To this horrible mystery there is not as yet, we believe, the slightest clew."
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
16
"Not the slightest clew," said Stephen Foster.
In Friendship's Guise
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