Before little hints came up suggesting it?
All hints of hesitation left the young girl in the wake of the smother of love that enveloped her.
There were any number of hints.
Pregnant hints are given respecting a natural development of language which has its germs in sounds of quadrupeds and birds, of religious ideas out of dreams and waking hallucinations, and of the art of music by help of the suggestion of natural sounds.
She'd been planting hints for days that Xander couldn't be trusted.
