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Sentences ending with secret

I will tell you more about this at some future time; I need not conceal it, for it has been no secret. [10]
How strange that you and I alone to this day should have his secret! [6]
I will tell you a secret! [5]
Thereby one less would know her secret. [11]
All the other words give you hints, by their form, their sound, or their spelling--this one doesn't, this one throws out no hints, this one keeps its secret. [5]
She was alone with this secret. [11]
That is the whole secret. [10]
But the man who knew of the terrible thing he had done, who had saved him from the consequences of that terrible thing, was in sore trouble, and this broke down the gloomy guard he had kept over his dread secret. [11]
The entrance of Victor Emanuel into Rome is only the pompous proclamation of a unity which garlic had already accomplished; and yet we, who boast of our democracy, eat onions in secret. [4]
It was buried very deep; not one of his family knew of it: Edward Lambert, and one or two others who had good reason never to speak of it, were the only persons possessing his secret. [11]

Short sentences using secret

It's a secret yet. [4]
That is your secret? [5]
Is it so secret? [11]
Tell none--keep the secret. [5]
I'll keep the secret. [5]
It's not a secret. [2]
An' there's the secret. [13]
You hold a secret. [11]
You have some secret. [11]
Well, for the secret. [11]

Sentences containing secret two or more times

The government at Whitehall still consulted him, still relied upon his knowledge and his natural tact; but secret as his conferences were with the authorities, they were not so secret that criticism was not viciously at work. [11]
It needs not to be a secret and I presume it is no secret, that I wish success to this provision. [7]
Her secret, if secret she has, which I do not at all know, is shared by the birds and the new leaves and the blossoms on the fruit trees. [4]
Out of his own secret and the torment of it he divined that she, too, had a secret and the keeping of it was torturing her. [13]
The mortal does not breathe, nor ever will, who can penetrate the secret of that spell, and without that secret none can break it. [5]
The secret of my birth--" "The secret of your birth! [5]
There was no longer any chance of getting at the secret from Dorothy, if secret there were. [9]
In this trouble I knew that I was to play a part; for, if Roscoe had his secret and Mrs. Falchion had the key to it, I also held a secret which, in case of desperate need, I should use. [11]
It has been a secret for many years--a secret between me and three others; but I am going to break the seal now. [5]
So he said: "Let me whisper a little secret in your ear--a secret which I have kept shut up in my breast all this time. [5]

More example sentences with the word secret in them

I shall keep your secret, too. [11]
I'll not betray your secret to any one. [10]
And even if your secret should eventually be discovered--which is not probable--you will have earned respect, and society is not as stern as it used to be. [9]
You are so young, that nobody would imagine you were entrusted with a secret mission. [10]
It is only young magicians that give away a secret like that. [5]
I knew that you were not mixed up in politics, but I also knew that you were an intimate friend of Jethro's, and I thought that you had been let into the secret of the woodchuck session. [9]
And I promise you that if any such proposition shall hereafter come, it shall not be rejected and kept a secret from you. [7]
I spoke to you of a secret that will put Paaker into our power. [10]
He had not yet come to a desire to share his secret with any confidant, but preferred to be much alone and muse on it, creating a world which was without evil, without doubt, undisturbed by criticism. [4]
For a dozen years, by operations, various, secret, untiring, he had been laying the foundations for his success, and in the maturing of his schemes it became apparent how vast his transactions had been. [4]
They said it wouldn't go; and they wanted to examine it, and spy around and get the secret of it out of me. [5]
Mr. Davis's pamphlet would hardly be complete without a mysterious letter from an unnamed writer, whether a faithless friend, a disguised enemy, a secret emissary, or an injudicious alarmist, we have no means of judging for ourselves. [6]
But then, perhaps, would come a letter from some quiet body in some out-of-the-way place, which showed me that I had said something which another had often felt but never said, or told the secret of another's heart in unburdening my own. [6]
The way the worldly-wise professor discovered the secret was this: he had gone to Bradford to hear the case, for he had been a dear friend of Sarah Austen. [9]
And how few words in secret had we as yet spoken, how little had we discussed what might befall on the morrow, and how he should demean himself to his mother! [10]
But the Three Words are not the Great Secret I mean. [6]
We had seen wonders this day; and my thoughts began to run on the pleasure it would be to tell them when I got home, but he noticed those thoughts, and said: "No, all these matters are a secret among us four. [5]
I held the woman I hated in my grasp, and thanked the immortals for the boon; but you two--it is not difficult to guess the secret you are still trying to keep from me--you aided her to escape. [10]
He would sit with them at night, pondering with a secret satisfaction, they could see, upon the flight that he and she would take before night came again; and still they would hear him whisper in his prayers, 'Lord! [12]
Set up originally with the bark on, the worms worked underneath it in secret, at a novel sort of decoration, until the bark came off and exposed the stems most beautifully vermiculated, giving the effect of fine carving. [4]
Her heart burned with fresh bitterness to think that there had been a secret marriage. [11]
He rose up, with a great resolution upon his lips: this secret life should be revealing, and confessed; no longer would he live it clandestinely, he would go and tell her All. [5]
Even grown-up people will sometimes buy another's dearest secret for a light asseveration. [10]
Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers--as earlier --but do not dare to say so. [5]
In their hands will I place the decision and, because I feel that the Most High beholds my heart, let me confess that I have thought of thee with secret rancor. [10]
At last the wife said, as if to herself, "Nobody knows this secret but the Richardses . [5]
But the Notary's wife had wormed the secret from her husband, and she found it hard to keep. [11]
The priest to whom she was taken was a frequent visitor at the Schurstab house, and she would have died ere she would have confided to him the secret of her heart. [10]
This was the whole secret of it. [5]
Here they were who, without words or acts, had been to each other what Adam and Eve were in the Garden, without furtiveness, and guiltless of secret acts which poison Love. [11]
She it was who had a secret passion for Prince Charles, and these letters to Sir John, who had been with the Pretender at Versailles, must prove her ruin if produced. [11]
I know that while the coming transaction was still a secret, you and other, gentlemen connected with the matter bought up large interests in other lines, which you proceeded to lease to yourselves at guaranteed dividends which these lines do not earn. [9]
The manner in which, after he permitted her to speak, she had disclosed in a low whisper her happy yet disquieting secret, hovered before him now as one of the most pathetic incidents in a life full of varied experiences. [10]
The trivial sin which this sweet love secret contained had been pardoned in the case of the man bound by no older obligation, after a slight penance, and now for the first time he fully enjoyed the wealth of the unexpected new happiness. [10]
Not far from where the mule train crept along was a great hole in the mountain-side, as though antique giants of the hills had tunnelled through to make themselves a home or to find the eternal secret of the mountains. [11]
I soon saw where Roscoe's secret was to be found. [11]
He knew that what the old quack said was true--the West might shake with scandal concerning a few who, no doubt, in remorse and secret fear, had more than paid the penalty of their offences. [11]
That she mistook what really was in his eyes was not material, though he was thinking of days when he believed he had discovered the secret of life--a woman whose life was beautiful; diffusing beauty, contentment, inspiration and peace. [11]
I don't know what its secret is, but it is a voice that makes friends of everybody. [6]
What am I, what are my possessions to set in motion such intensity of secret oppression? [13]
Margaret and Carmen were made acquainted, and were drawn together by curiosity, and perhaps by a secret feeling of repulsion. [4]
The Imperial troops were in fact masters of the secret passage; and they had begun the attack on the Serapeum in earnest. [10]
We two youths were happy; happier than any words can tell--for we were not in the secret any more than the rest. [5]
Mother and daughter were alike in that both were inarticulate, but Janet had a secret contempt for Hannah's uncomplaining stoicism. [9]
They remembered perfectly well the omniscient snobbishness of Thomas Mavick when he held a position in the State Department at Washington and was at the same time a secret agent of Rodney Henderson. [4]
She knew full well the meaning of the deep lines that marked his lips and brow; for Porphyrius had never made any secret of his distress and vexation whenever he found himself compelled to confess a creed in which he did not honestly believe. [10]
I may as well mention that B. F. came to me after breakfast to borrow the pamphlet for "a lady,"--one of the boarders, he said,--looking as if he had a secret he wished to be relieved of. [6]
I bore it well enough, though, and said to myself, with secret satisfaction, "In three or four short days, my lads, you will be employing your tongues in a different sort from this--and I shall be there to hear. [5]
Only a few weeks since you swore on my hands to guard the mysteries, and this day you have offered the great secret of the Unnameable one, the most sacred possession of the initiated, like some cheap ware in the open market. [10]
Thrice within a week the Queen had sent for De la Foret--what reason was there for that, unless the Queen had a secret personal interest in him? [11]
They wound this way and that, far down into the secret depths of the cave, made another mark, and branched off in search of novelties to tell the upper world about. [5]
In her heart was working the consciousness that she had been singled out as worthy to share the confidence of a man in his most secret ambitions and aspirations, in the dreams of youth which seemed to her so noble. [4]
Clearly, the thing was to go on as before, keep his marriage secret, meet the Countess, apparently accede to all the Duke proposed, and wait--and wait. [11]
On either side was that soft plumbless diffusion, and ahead the secret of untravelled wilds and the fortunes of war. [11]
Colonel Woodburn, who was not yet in the secret of their love, perhaps failed for this reason to share their satisfaction with a result so unexpectedly brought about. [8]
Mr Swiveller, who was not in the secret, was a little surprised to hear a suppressed scream, and, looking round, to see Mrs Quilp following him with a sudden jerk; but he did not remark on these appearances, and soon forgot them. [12]
His bitter secret was not hidden from Mahommed. [11]
The whole affair was kept a profound secret until last night. [5]
If the cave was inhabited, it must be by strangers, and by men who had some secret purpose in seeking this seclusion and eluding observation. [4]
No vigilance committee was ever more determined and secret and organised than the unconverted civic patriots, who were determined to restore Jansen to its old-time condition. [11]
A secret council was being held there. [5]
If Kochel, who was a very ordinary man, should not keep the secret, what might not Moor suffer from his treachery! [10]
To Eglington it was a relief that there was one human being--he thought there was only one--who read him through and through; and that knowledge was in itself as powerful an influence as was the secret between David and Hylda. [11]
I knew the warrior's secret now; I knew the hollow vanity of his rusty trumpery, and despised his asinine complacency. [5]
He shot Cynthia Ware, and what she suffered in secret Coniston never guessed. [9]
Not that I want a dog like that, but only to know the secret of its birth. [5]
He added a vice, presently--that of secret gambling. [5]
She found it very hard to speak of her troubles, even to Miss Lucretia, and she would have kept this secret even from Jethro, had it been possible. [9]
They bathed that vain mind in the illusion that it could see into the secret springs of experience. [11]
She has insisted upon putting the individual in a straitjacket, she has never recognized that growth is the secret of life, that the clothes of one man are binding on another. [9]
I could set up a little enchantment of mine which I call the telephone, and he could not find out its secret in a hundred years. [5]
Show her how unworthy of her is this brother of yours, though in your secret soul you shall know that my guardian saint never had, nor ever shall have, any other face than hers. [10]
It was an unobtrusive, almost secret aid which she rendered to the Gentile families of the village. [13]
I also became unintentionally acquainted with a secret, which seriously endangered his chances of obtaining the crown; and lastly, I prevented his carrying off a virtuous maiden from the house of her grandmother, an aged woman, beloved and respected by all the Greeks. [10]
She caught the unfinished word in its flight and took it straight into her open heart, divining the secret meaning of all Pierre's mental travail. [2]
I never rightly understood how it was that Mr. Carvel was deceived in Mr. Allen; perchance the secret lay in his bold manner and in the appearance of dignity and piety he wore as a cloak when on his guard. [9]
To tell the truth, Austen Vane had a secret aversion to going to the capital during a session, a feeling that such a visit would cause him unhappiness. [9]
And, if the truth be told, down in his secret soul whispered a small, congratulatory voice. [9]
He will not trust that secret with any one; he will reflect that it could be revealed in sleep, in the hearing of some Portuguese guest's servant some time or other. [5]
A show of trust in him was the only thing, for he had enough knowledge of our secret to ruin us, if he chose. [11]
It is not true that a second apartment with a secret entrance was found; and the story of the veiled lady is the invention of one of the Reporters. [6]
The permit to trade given by Miro to Wilkinson was made no secret of. [9]
In the one tower of the citadel there were prisons of tolerably pleasant aspect, but she had heard whispers of terrible subterranean dungeons connected with the secret tribunal. [10]
I soon found, too, that he had no ideas whatever on the value of discretion, and it was only by repeated threats of absolute failure that I prevented our secret tactics from becoming the property of his sporting fraternity and of the town. [9]
It won't matter to you in the next world, if we do let out your secret. [10]
When he got to where they were, he began unfolding his secret, and they listened moodily till at last they saw the "point" he was driving at, and then they set up a war-whoop of applause and said it was "splendid! [5]
Next we went to visit the Morgue, that horrible receptacle for the dead who die mysteriously and leave the manner of their taking off a dismal secret. [5]
It is fearful to think how our characters are probably being lied away by innumerable pen scratches in secret repositories, which may some day come to light as unimpeachable witnesses. [4]
He then disclosed to them the emperor's secret orders. [10]
He turned round to the doorway to listen before he put his hand within the secret place. [11]
I am going to stay here a week or two, and before I go I will find out the secret, if there is any, of this Mr. Maurice Kirkwood. [6]
It was delicious to see a newspaper again, yet I was conscious of a secret shock when my eye fell upon the first batch of display head-lines. [5]
Naturally, I declined to reveal the secret. [9]
To none but to our Andreas have I ever confided the secret I have borne in my heart since that day when we went to the circus. [10]
But it seems to me that you have other and more secret reasons for refusing my brotherly proposal. [10]
I ask you to make me happy in a year, but you are free: our engagement shall remain a secret, and should you find that you do not love me, or should you come to love..." said Prince Andrew with an unnatural smile. [2]
She was beginning to know that sensitive fear assailing those tortured by a secret. [11]
I begged him to keep my secret. [11]
So it seemed to him advisable, unless his majesty wished to reveal this sweet secret to the world, to part from his beautiful friend, at least for a short space. [10]
She doesn't wish to have you accompany her, but Meister Wilhelm betrayed the secret to me. [10]

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