Use confessed in a sentence
Sentences ending with confessed
- Have you forgotten what first your eyes and then your lips confessed? [10]
- When Ealer observed this marvel of steering, he wished he had not confessed! [5]
- In discussing these things in our little parliament we were not altogether unprejudiced, it must be confessed. [4]
- One memory trembles on our lips It throbs in every breast; In tear-dimmed eyes, in mirth's eclipse, The shadow stands confessed. [6]
- Before going farther, let a pin be stuck here, labeled "One lie proved and confessed. [7]
- Now then, I have confessed. [5]
- How does any clergyman buildup a church "I don't know," Langmaid confessed. [9]
- He has confessed. [5]
Sentences containing confessed two or more times
- And so when the other ten heard that this one confessed, they confessed, too, and answered yes to the questions. [5]
- There can be no doubt that he would have confessed as much with reference to "The Over-Soul" as he has confessed with regard to "Circles," the Essay which follows "The Over-Soul. [6]
- Men who would never have confessed to a priest confessed to him. [11]
More example sentences with the word confessed in them
- As for that youth, Clement Lindsay, if he had not taken himself off as he did, Murray Bradshaw confessed to himself that he should have felt uneasy. [6]
- I confessed to you once that Mr. Parr had made for us all the money we possess. [9]
- His father had worn similar apparel when he confessed his love for her. [10]
- In brief, earnest words he confessed his love for her, and his desire to make her his own, as the pride and ornament of his house. [10]
- Melissa had confessed with far greater warmth what her feelings had been after she had sacrificed for the suffering sinner. [10]
- As to variety, why, he confessed that he got hundreds of kinds of weather that he had never heard of before. [5]
- Yes, something of which she was still ignorant must be oppressing Wolff, and, with the firm resolve to give him no peace until he confessed everything to her, she returned to the couch of her invalid mother. [10]
- The visitors confessed when they landed that the Pier was a contrast to Newport. [4]
- I fancy that when the right day came she confessed that the moment was when she first saw him enter their box at the opera. [4]
- When she confessed what withheld her from doing so, he at first tried to convince her by opposing reasons, but usually strength to continue the interchange of thought soon failed him. [10]
- All the servants were called together, and strict enquiry was made as to the theft of the stone; then I could hold out no longer, and confessed everything. [10]
- Nicolas knew him well, and had even confessed to him once the year before. [10]
- The first shock was so great that Mrs. Abner Reed cried in the privacy of her chamber, and the Widow Crane confessed her disappointment to the confiding ear of her bosom friend, Mrs. Merrill. [9]
- His open admiration was Dr. Courtenay, his confessed hope to wear five-pound ruffles and gold sword knots. [9]
- Another reporter, who was assigned to inform the public of the results of a difficult archeological investigation, frankly confessed his inability to understand what was going on; for his ordinary business, he said, was cattle. [4]
- Old Hundred swelled up with a triumphant burst, and while it shook the rafters Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest moment of his life. [5]
- After her visit to the Rostovs and her unexpectedly chilly reception by Nicholas, Princess Mary confessed to herself that she had been right in not wishing to be the first to call. [2]
- On his way to the Green Shield he had confessed to Biberli--who, torch in hand, led the way--that he intended very shortly to turn his back on the court and ride home, because this time he had found the right chatelaine for his castle. [10]
- That murderer confessed to the authorities. [2]
- Gifted Hopkins confessed to Susan Posey that he was afraid of her, since she had been to the great city school. [6]
- It was plain to see that she had long been biding her time for this full and free discourse, and she confessed that she had never shown me such love and care as were indeed my due. [10]
- He has confessed to my mother, as to a true and dear friend, his love for E----, and his conviction of its utter hopelessness. [4]
- Cambyses went out to meet his family on their return; he was much impressed with Sappho's great beauty, but she confessed to her husband that his brother only inspired her with fear. [10]
- Now it seems to me unfair, Dowley, and a deadly peril to all of us, that because you thoughtlessly confessed, a while ago, that within a week you have paid a cent and fifteen mil--" Oh, I tell _you_ it was a smasher! [5]
- In her note to me she had confessed her illness. [9]
- Clemens himself confessed to Howells that He wished, when it was too late, that he had destroyed a number of them. [5]
- Warner has tried to hold up our hands like the good fellow he is, but poor Twichell could not say a word, and confessed that he would rather take nearly any punishment than face Livy and me. [5]
- They were going to examine her, but she stopped them, and confessed straight off that her power was from the Devil. [5]
- He was condemned to death, and before his end he sent for me and confessed to me that in former years he had soiled his soul with many robberies and murders. [10]
- Her heart belonged to another, and this she had confessed in a letter--perhaps, indeed, too late. [10]
- For the first time his lips met hers, he confessed his love, and that he had just regarded death as a deliverer; but his life was now gaining new charm through her affection. [10]
- He read it through to the last letter, and when, a fortnight later; he asked me at his house to remain after the others had left, he looked pleased, and confessed that he had found something entirely different from what he expected. [10]
- Sobbing aloud, she threw herself at his feet, confessed that she was guilty, and remorsefully admitted that fear of his resentment, which seemed to her more terrible than death, had induced her to deny what she had done. [10]
- One or two thought they discerned something like a track; the others shook their heads and confessed that the smooth hard surface had no marks upon it which their eyes were sharp enough to discover. [5]
- And Katharina, too, thought better of it, and confessed to me just now that she had committed a great sin and had borne false witness before the judges to please her dear Orion. [10]
- The learned Judge Thornton confessed himself surprised at the extent of Dudley Veneer's information. [6]
- To be sure, this gave a general impression that Henderson was an inscrutable man to deal with, but at the same time it was confessed that his spoken word could be depended on. [4]
- They all confessed they had never seen anything like it, and the vivacious Dame Susannah proposed to send for her daughter and her visitors; but it was already late, and her house was so far from the governor's that she gave that up. [10]
- The chiefest of these he "laid by the heels," as usual, and the others confessed and told the singular tale we have outlined. [4]
- Presently they found themselves among the crowd in Washington Street, where Ephraim confessed the trepidation which he felt over the coming supper party: a trepidation greater, so he declared many times, than he had ever experienced before any of his battles in the war. [9]
- The dismissal of the teacher, indeed, was put down to a regrettable misconception on the part of "one of the prudential committee," who had confessed his mistake in "a manly and altogether praiseworthy speech. [9]
- Althea had asked the sculptor whether he still regretted having been detained by her before midnight, and he had confessed that his remaining at the banquet had been connected with a great sacrifice--nay, with an offence which weighed heavily on his mind. [10]
- Baker confessed that the quartermaster and Chambers received gold of the pirates, for what purpose it does not appear. [4]
- Daily they told the morning lie, and confessed their sin in prayer; not asking forgiveness, as not being worthy of it, but only wishing to make record that they realized their wickedness and were not desiring to hide it or excuse it. [5]
- Years and years the little woman had gone on with her work, and she frankly confessed to Edith, one day when they were together going her rounds, that she could see no result from it all. [4]
- But one of the heavy critics got hold of it, and made Mandeville appear, even to himself, he confessed, like an ass, because there was nothing in the volume about geology or mining prospects, and very little to instruct the student of physical geography. [4]
- I had seen the heads and faces of ten youths gashed in every direction by the keen two-edged blades, and yet had not seen a victim wince, nor heard a moan, or detected any fleeting expression which confessed the sharp pain the hurts were inflicting. [5]
- Patience confessed that the getting exactly right of the Great Dipper had caused her most trouble. [4]
- In either case the fact had a pathos which Mrs. March confessed in the affection with which she took her hard, dry, large, old hand when she was introduced to her, and in the sincerity which she put into the hope that she was well. [8]
- They discussed this, that, and the other way, and talked till the afternoon was far spent, then confessed that at present they could arrive at no decision. [5]
- You yourself confessed that you like the Southern openness right much, and you like to come here, and you like the Southern people as they are at home. [4]
- Then she confessed that the Emperor's sufferings and melancholy mood had induced her to subject them to the discomforts of the trip to Ratisbon. [10]
- But Ruth confessed that she was tired of them, and also of the Mint. [5]
- She had confessed that she loved Isaac Worthington's son, and was not he (Jethro) widening the breach between Cynthia and the son by crushing the father? [9]
- It was then that she led me to a bench and confessed that you were the man whom she could not forget. [9]
- And I confessed that she didn't. [9]
- He frankly confessed that here he was working only for effect, and talked to Hadrian exactly as he would have discussed the same subject with any other fellow-artist. [10]
- I do believe that he would have confessed, if he could. [9]
- In a confidential talk with my wife she confessed, however, that she couldn't tell whither Margaret was going. [4]
- She had permitted something forbidden under the eyes of the Virgin's image, and this had seemed to her so wicked that she had confessed it, and not only been sternly censured, but had a penance imposed. [10]
- She has confessed so much to me myself. [10]
- She could be so kind!--even when I confessed that you had won my love, she still held me dear. [10]
- He confessed that she was a noble, a majestic woman, but the very memory of this grandeur now sent a chill through his veins. [10]
- I felt that she regarded me as a man, and she afterwards confessed how great her hopes were at that time, especially as Professor Tzschirner had encouraged her to cherish them. [10]
- After Siebenburg's departure she had confessed with tears to him, his master, and the monk, what had befallen her, and how she had finally reached the Bindergasse and Sir Heinz Schorlin's lodgings. [10]
- Should he, after she had confessed her guilt, (for he was determined to force a confession from her) shut her up in a solitary dungeon? [10]
- When she awoke she had changed, she was her old self, as in Paris, when she had first confessed her love. [11]
- Advancing toward him, she gave a bright display of her rosy neck, and from her head the ambrosial locks breathed divine fragrance; her robe hung waving to his view, while she stood like a goddess confessed before him. [5]
- Witness confessed that she did not think of it then. [5]
- And the more she confessed, the more she apparently yielded, the more impotent he seemed, the tighter the demon gripped him. [9]
- Heron had already seen the man, and he seemed still to be thinking of him, when Melissa, with a blush and downcast eyes, confessed that, as soon as he was well again, Diodoros was coming to her father to ask her of him in marriage. [10]
- Still, as a rule, it must be confessed, there would be found in them much more of plain living than of high thinking. [4]
- He afterwards sold Roscoe a watch at cost, but confessed to me that the works of the watch had been smuggled. [11]
- How well he remembered his father's indignation when he confessed it, and in his anger Mr. Brice had called Phillips and Parker "agitators. [9]
- They came out, reluctant, into the dazzle and bustle of the street, with a feeling that they were too good for it, which they confessed to each other with whimsical consciousness. [8]
- And behind this redoubtable and sinister Eldon Parr he saw, as it were, the wraith of that: other who had once confessed the misery of his loneliness. [9]
- He confessed, and received communion: everyone came to take leave of him. [2]
- It was not quite true that she had taken her passage for Europe, but she hoped soon to do so, and she confessed that in the mean time she was anxious to let her flat. [8]
- Eagerly as Wolf praised Quijada's noble nature, she commanded him to assure the Castilian, whose messenger he honestly confessed himself to be, that she would die rather than yield to the Emperor's demands. [10]
- In the little parliament at our house, where everything, first and last, was overhauled and brought to judgment, without, it must be confessed, any visible effect on anything, one evening a common "incident" of the day started the conversation. [4]
- But when, so painfully surprised that her eyes filled with tears, she confessed that her selection perhaps had not been very appropriate, and sadly added the inquiry why her beloved sovereign condemned a trivial offence so harshly, he wrathfully exclaimed, "For more than one reason. [10]
- As he got out of his litter at the door of his sister's town-house he shook his head, smiling at himself; for he confessed to himself that the whole of the long distance he had hardly thought of anything but Balbilla. [10]
- Last night on our way to see you he confessed how much he loved me, and now you must advise me how to win over my father to our side, and very soon too. [10]
- Queen Mary had ordered that it should be omitted, because Dr. Mathys had pronounced it poison for the gouty patient, and she confessed the offence. [10]
- And I heard once more the tremble in her voice as she confessed, in words of which she took no heed, that love for which I had sought in vain. [9]
- Howbeit, as Starch once more pointed to the pear-tree, he confessed in desperate terror that another man had claimed the tops, one who had not been caught, inasmuch as they were so high and good. [10]
- In sixty millions of people, all of whom are, or have been, in reach of the common school, it must be confessed that their audience is small. [4]
- On those shreds of papyrus scattered over the floor she confessed she was not able to accede to his wishes, because she had already given her faith to another before she ever saw Caracalla. [10]
- After the departure of Miss McDonald, Mrs. Mavick, in one of her confidential talks with her proposed son-in-law, confessed that she experienced much relief. [4]
- Though the supply of furs was scanty in Virginia, one master confessed he had got in one voyage by this private trade what he sold in England for thirty pounds. [4]
- Most ominous sign of all--the proprietor of the Pelican Hotel had confessed that the Throne Room had not been engaged for the coming session. [9]
- Besides, the question of accommodation for this large number in the already crowded city now arose, for the Queen confessed that, in order to make the surprise complete, no one had been commissioned to find lodgings. [10]
- In a quarter of a century, from being nobodies, and feared by none, they were become confessed lords and masters, feared by all, sovereigns included, and served by all, sovereigns included. [5]
- Why was he now silent, why had he nothing to answer, since she had confessed to him the deepest secret of her breast, and allowed him to look into the inmost sanctuary of her heart? [10]
- He pretended to nothing; he confessed ignorance here and there with great simplicity; but he had the gift of reducing things, as it were, to their original elements. [11]
- The priest has nothing to do with any sins but those confessed by the sinner to himself. [11]
- The world is not unkind, it is not even indifferent, but it must be confessed that it does not act any longer as if it expected to be enlightened. [4]
- Besides, she had not confessed, and it seemed as if, in feeling the young heretic's kiss an honour, she were adding to the burden which had not yet been removed from her conscience. [10]
- But it must not be thought that Lionel Carvel, your ancestor, was wholly unlettered because he was a sportsman, though it must be confessed that books occupied him only when the weather compelled, or when on his back with the gout. [9]
- Honora confessed, with no great enthusiasm, that she knew the present Mrs. Waterford. [9]
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