clew

• It proved that their visitants of the night had not been metal robots of titanic proportions The clew was a crimson fluid. —  014 - The Monsters
• His long absence had kindled in the minds of the countess and Bertha a hope that he had discovered some clew, and the latter had worked herself up to such a pitch of excitement that she almost anticipated the return of Madeleine in Count Tristan's company. —  Fairy Fingers A Novel
• She had all the newspapers sent to her room, that she might scan the advertisements and "personals" for a clew, and this led her to following the news of the Great War, in which she found a partial distraction from her worries. —  Mary Louise Solves a Mystery
• I had found the clew--the fiendish clew--to the attack that threatened to cost us our lives. —  The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada
• But fearing that the clew might be followed up, I abandoned my intention of going north, and went south instead, ultimately crossing the border into the United States. —  The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada

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