being in evidence

Example Sentences

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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 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

There had been some sort of accident, yet there was no human being in evidence.

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.

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)

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