But she began to get inklings that it was very bad.
"The Desert of Wheat"
Zane Grey
Such statement of direct personal observations-coming from the pen of an aged, but still vigorous, gentleman of ample pecuniary means, of more than average culture, of acute perceptions, of careful and critical observations, who has spent many years in "trying the spirits" and contesting the strength and quality of testimony in their favor at every step,-who hates, with a righteous and outspoken hatred, falsehood, fraud, imposture, oppression, or hypocrisy, wherever or in whatever cause they manifest themselves-is entitled to credence, and gives important inklings of some occasional methods of spirit operations upon and around mediums.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam
By help of sensibility to the beautiful we have inklings of the essence of things, we sympathize with the inward life that molds the outward form.
"Essays Æsthetical"
George Calvert