being in evidence

Example Sentences

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But I couldn't see a blamed thing but trees and grass, and a moss-covered stone wall out by the road; the Earl's bulldog not being in evidence anywhere.

From The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons Being one of the exciting episodes in the career of the famous detective Hemlock Holmes, as recorded by his friend Dr. Watson by Thierry, James Francis

The Gates family not being in evidence, she wrote a hasty note, telling Mud-Cat where she had seen a houseboat resembling the one he had lost.

From The Vanishing Houseboat by Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine)

But probably, I thought, it is quite simple of solution, and the fact of the repairers and the landlord being in evidence at one time, a natural coincidence.

From At a Winter's Fire by Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph

Mountain tops and forests were bellowing without anyone's being in evidence.

From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster

In like manner, Jane's female associates were chary about being in evidence.

From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)