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  • Then said she, ‘Meseemeth thou hintest a wish for the lute to be brought?’ and I, ‘It is thine to decide, if thou wilt so far favour me, and to thee be the thanks.’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • King Yunan, “Thou hast spoken sooth, O Wazir, it may well be as thou hintest O my well advising Minister; and belike this Sage hath come as a spy searching to put me to death; for assuredly if he cured me by a something held in my hand, he can kill me by a something given me to smell.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • ” “We have none like that thou hintest at among us, ” replied he.

    Letter I-On the Quakers Voltaire 1909

  • "Meseemeth thou hintest a wish for the lute to be brought?" said she, and I, "It is thine to decide, if thou wilt so far favour me, and to thee be the thanks."

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879

  • And thou hintest withal that thou fain would'st shine,

    Fly Leaves Charles Stuart Calverley 1857

  • 'Meseemeth thou hintest a wish for the lute to be brought?' and

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Replied King Yunan, "Thou hast spoken sooth, O Wazir, it may well be as thou hintest O my well advising Minister; and belike this Sage hath come as a spy searching to put me to death; for assuredly if he cured me by a something held in my hand, he can kill me by a something given me to smell."

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Ibla surviving in my heart; neither does my anguish proceed from what thou hintest at: but my tears flow for the grief of the females of mine own family.

    Antar : 1820

  • "We have none like that thou hintest at among us," replied he.

    Letters on England 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736

  • But soon as I had conquered these and taken their children as hostages and appointed the yearly tribute they should pay my house, I crossed the firth, and lo! am here; on foot I traversed all thy borders that remained to pass, not as thou in thy jeers at those carousals of my countrymen hintest, nor sleeping soft in gilded palaces, but amid the frozen hurricanes that vex the Thracian main and the Paeonian shores, learning as I lay awake what suffering is, this soldier's cloak-my only wrap.

    Rhesus 2008

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