Intimation

He didn't give any intimation about that.

There have been moments during the last ten years when I have fell so portentously old, so fagged and finished, that I should have taken as a very bad joke any intimation that this present sense of juvenility was still in store for me.

They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished.

Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him.

At length, perchance, the immaterial heaven will appear as much higher to the American mind, and the intimations that star it as much brighter.

And actually I had important intimations to communicate as he faced the end. But intimations weren't much use.