intimation

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Intimation had reached my friends in Boston of what I intended to do, before my arrival, and I was prepared to find them favorably disposed toward my much cherished enterprise.

From My Bondage and My Freedom by Douglass, Frederick

Intimation was made that Kerbler, hitherto vicar in Lindenau, was present, and had joined the New Church.

From John Ronge: The Holy Coat Of Treves New German-Catholic Chruch by Anonymous

If that wretch Talleyrand has Page 154 not given him some private Intimation to escape, and where to be safe, he must be a monster.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Burney, Fanny

Which yet in the present Case | A3 are Material Circumstances, and such as ought not to have been concealed, for Two Reasons particularly, which I hold myself obliged to give the Reader Intimation of.

From Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) by Krutch, Joseph Wood

The Greeting between Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus, is very easy, and expresses the benign Disposition of the Prince, and first gives us an Intimation of his Friendship for Horatio.

From Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Written by Mr. William Shakespeare (1736) by Anonymous