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Sentences starting with secretly

Secretly I wanted to believe all these kind sayings, but I could not; I was afraid that my masters' partiality for me, and pride in me, biased their judgment. [5]
Secretly I looked down on my fellow-clerks, as one destined for a higher mission, made out of better stuff,--finer stuff. [9]

Sentences ending with secretly

After his nocturnal ride he had caused Nilus the treasurer to be waked, and had charged him to liberate Hiram secretly. [10]
At the age of fourteen I had begun secretly (alas, how many things I did secretly! [9]
They intended to let him die there, but Reuben intended to liberate him secretly. [5]
Well, some things I did secretly. [11]
He first implored her to forgive him and Sonya and consent to their marriage, then he threatened that if she molested Sonya he would at once marry her secretly. [2]
There and then he wrote to Carterette, telling her about the vestry-books of St. Michael's, and begging that she should restore them secretly. [11]
In his heart he cherishes every virtue on the list of virtues, and he practises them all--secretly--always secretly. [5]

More example sentences with the word secretly in them

If pride within you secretly abides That, forced by the elixir's charm, The Sooth You needs must speak--be wholly pure in thought, Despising not the teachings wise, of old; When Truth with equal earnestness was sought If speech be silver, silence then is gold! [10]
There, his talents would make him an admiral, and doubtless give him the social position he secretly coveted. [9]
When we had worked our way through their reserves and gotten their confidence, we found that they secretly harbored French hearts in their bodies. [5]
I kissed the woman openly--is there none among you who has kissed secretly, and has kept the matter hidden? [11]
As one to whom it is vouchsafed to stand and gaze at some great prodigy, so Pentaur had stood opposite the royal maiden, uneasy and yet fascinated, agitated, yet with secretly uplifted soul. [10]
Even Mrs. Waring, who resembled a Roman matron, with her wavy white hair parted in the middle and her gentle yet classic features, sighed secretly at times at the unyielding attitude of her husband, although admiring him for it. [9]
Three years afterward, when there was danger that Ortiz would be sacrificed to appease the devil, the princess came to him, warned him of his danger, and led him secretly and alone in the night to the camp of a chieftain who protected him. [4]
The Hawkins family were settled there, and had a hard enough struggle with poverty and the necessity of keeping up appearances in accord with their own family pride and the large expectations they secretly cherished of a fortune in the Knobs of East Tennessee. [5]
Preparations for departure were secretly made in the painter's rooms in the Alcazar during the afternoon. [10]
Because Mavick was weak--and she had always secretly despised him for yielding to her--weak as compared with her own indomitable spirit, she generalized wildly. [4]
That evening, as Wassef the camel-driver went to the mosque to pray, Fatima cursed him, because now all the village laughed secretly at the revenge that Wassef had taken upon the lover of his daughter. [11]
I knew what was in her mind; she had always been secretly disappointed that I had not been sent to college. [9]
Paulette Dubois, the wanton woman, had just left his doorway secretly, yet there he was, instantly after, calmly reading a pious book! [11]
In fact, he used, unasked and secretly, a considerable portion of his large revenues to relieve the distress of the poor and suffering. [10]
I was bundled up in a new ulster,--of which I was secretly quite proud,--but he wore no overcoat at all. [9]
Now he spoke up and said, in the voice of one who is secretly suffering, "You're the fourth--I'm going to move. [5]
She would go to-night secretly and nail the cross again on the church door, and so stop the chatter of evil tongues. [11]
Confiding my purpose to Luke, we secretly made our preparations, and stole away from the shanty one morning at daybreak. [4]
He was admitted to Joan's prison by night, disguised as a cobbler; he pretended to be from her own country; he professed to be secretly a patriot; he revealed the fact that he was a priest. [5]
It angered her to have the great sovereign denied his due reverence in her own home; but secretly she believed in the breach of faith. [10]
My wife likes to go to Mass, but always does so secretly, as if she were committing a crime. [10]
She would pretend to fast for days, living on food she had concealed and took secretly in the night. [6]
Barbara was obliged to content herself with the others, yet her heart ached secretly that he gave her no word of welcome. [10]
By authority of this astonishing By-law, she has only to say a person connected with that Church is secretly practicing hypnotism or mesmerism; whereupon, immediate excommunication, without a hearing, is his portion! [5]
The truth was, they secretly envied these rich men who were exploiting their city, and just as long as they envied them they hadn't any right to complain of them. [9]
From interest in these matters alone Detricand would not have remained at Bercy, but he thought to use the time for secretly meeting officers of the duchy likely to favour the cause of the Royalists. [11]
Some had supposed there was a mutual attachment between them; there was a story that they were secretly betrothed, in accordance with the rumor which had been current in the village. [6]
Jacques, however, told them what his master's wishes were, and they were carried out; Jock's friend secretly left England forever. [11]
Then she made them show her the lovely, richly-tinted and fragrant gift, first on one side and then on the other, buried her face in the flowers, and secretly kissed the delicate petals of a lovely, half-opened rose-bud. [10]
The youngest told them not to whisper their intention to their wives, but secretly to prepare for their journey. [5]
Both armies conducted their invasions secretly and are now hunting around for each other on opposite sides of the border. [5]
I secretly admitted the truth of his remark, but whenever I yielded to the impulse to write I felt as if I were being disloyal to the mistress to whom I had devoted all my physical and mental powers. [10]
For not betraying the subject secretly, for a bribe, into the hands of bands of professional Thugs, to be murdered and robbed in the prince's back lot. [5]
He afterwards spread the story secretly among the friends of the family. [9]
Near midnight of the second day I came out secretly from my lurking-place, and faced straight for the St. Charles River. [11]
The voice of the reader moved in pleasant yet vibrant modulations: "The King was now come to a time when his enemies wickedly began to plot against him secretly and to oppose him in his purposes; which, in his own mind, were beneficent and magnanimous. [11]
Epidemics swept away the people like flies, and the burials were conducted secretly and by night, for public funerals were not allowed, lest the revelation of the magnitude of the plague's work unman the people and plunge them into despair. [5]
The idea of the Indians is to drop softly and secretly from the arched sapling to the dwelling as the ark creeps along under it at the rate of a mile an hour, and butcher the family. [5]
He had forbidden the idle young singers who wanted to go with him to follow, but one had secretly slipped after, and, in one of the dark corridors of the big house, full of nooks and corners, he suddenly heard a voice call his name. [10]
The wife of the centurion Martialis, who had been separated for some time from her husband, had at his entreaty come secretly from Ranopus, where she had charge of Seleukus's villa, to see him, as his services prevented his going so far away. [10]
If Pharaoh returned, the body-guards would take him prisoner and remove him as Siptah, who liked no halfway measures, had secretly directed, while the chief-priest insisted upon keeping him in mild imprisonment. [10]
Then he made the blonde discover, through the help of the Roscicrucian and the melodramatic miscreant, that while the Duke loved her money ardently and wanted it, he secretly felt a sort of leaning toward the society-young-lady. [5]
The aristocracy of the Antiques ignored the aristocracy of the Parvenus; the Parvenus laughed at the Antiques, (and secretly envied them. [5]
You remember, also, that you carried on your relations with Alo secretly, and my father never suspected it was you. [11]
One journal protested that it was not possible to believe in Dyck Calhoun's guilt; that his outward habits were known to all, and were above suspicion, although he had collogued--though never secretly, so far as the world knew--with some of the advanced revolutionary spirits. [11]
I was sure that at Viking the river-drivers had laid their plans so secretly that the news of them would scarcely reach the ears of the manager of the mill, and that, therefore, his influence, as Mr. Devlin's, would not be available. [11]
I secretly feared that Alexas, the brother of Philostratus, had prejudiced her. [10]
They felt confident that a man who could so carefully and secretly build up his own fortune had a gift which could be used to advantage. [11]
All through this tale my heart beat higher; I secretly hoped that peradventure my brothers had come home with Gotz, and were hiding themselves away, only for some reason privy to themselves. [10]
Grandfather, these men suspect that we have secretly left our friends, and mean to carry us before some gentleman and have us taken care of and sent back. [12]
Behind Ani's pavilion stood a tent, enclosed in a wall or screen of canvas, within which old Hekt was lodged; Ani had secretly conveyed her hither on board his own boat. [10]
For Jethro Bass, still with the coonskin cap, but in a brass-buttoned coat secretly purchased in Brampton, appeared at meeting! [9]
Things were working steadily toward a secretly longed-for point. [5]
It was not stated how it was ever discovered whose footprints they were, seeing the interview occurred secretly and at night. [5]
He had, therefore, sprung to the acceptance, and sent his humble duty to the Queen by her winsome messenger, who, with conspicuous dramatic skill, had arranged secretly, with the help of a Gentleman Pensioner and the Master of the Horse, his appearance and his exit. [11]
I had scattered some branch schools secretly about the kingdom, and they were doing very well. [5]
Rullecour it was, soldier of fortune, gambler, ruffian, and embezzler, to whom the King of France had secretly given the mission to conquer the unconquerable little island. [11]
It is a singular thing that actual events which happened in those early days have largely vanished from my memory; but the fairy tales I heard and secretly experienced became firmly impressed on my mind. [10]
They may have sighed secretly when I painted it in its true colors, but they loved peace, these planters. [9]
She was delighted, she showed it to her brothers and sisters, and laid it by the statues of her ancestors; but I was miserable with shame and penitence, and at last I secretly took away the stone, and threw it into the water. [10]
The next evening she secretly kissed her fingers to Ulrich. [10]
While in Montreal she had tasted for the first time the joys of the theatre, and had then secretly read numbers of plays, which she bought from an old bookseller, who was wise enough to choose them for her. [11]
Before the dance she had secretly rejoiced in the applause elicited by her appearance; now she was indifferent to it--nay, the more eagerly the spectators expressed their delight the more she grieved that the only person whom she desired to please was not among them. [10]
With excited curiosity she asked what he had said so secretly, but he only answered hurriedly, "The name of the Man in the Moon's dog," kissed her cheek, and ran downstairs. [10]
Everything that you see with your own eyes and touch with your own hand, you think infallible, and everything that escapes your observation you secretly regard as untrue, and pass by with a smile of superiority. [10]
Both of them, secretly, regarded the new scheme as a compromise, a yielding to the inevitable . [9]
He married her secretly while she was staying with an aunt at Portsmouth. [11]
Why had she secretly been a little relieved from restraint when her Brandon visit ended in the spring? [4]
Shortly after, Ammonius secretly baptized her, and she begged to be given the name of Magdalen, and so it was, and after that she took me wholly into her confidence. [10]
His kindly nature secretly approved of her spending a longer time in the Cathedral of St. Gudule than usual, praying for the royal sufferer who was so seriously ill. [10]
He had always secretly admired that old Roman quality (which the Goodriches --their connections--shared) of holding fast to their course unmindful and rather scornful of influence which swayed their neighbours. [9]
He has been secretly a candidate ever since (before, even) the fall election. [7]
If for her sake he came secretly, daring death, wouldst thou stand--" The man's eyes lighted. [11]
He immediately set sail for New York, and next week he will secretly visit you, for love of the dead man, and to thank you and our dear avocat, together with all others who believed in and befriended his unfortunate kinsman. [11]
The old man, roused by activity, expected the best results from the new campaign, while Prince Andrew on the contrary, taking no part in the war and secretly regretting this, saw only the dark side. [2]
He was secretly rejoiced to see the sweet modesty which had so charmed him again proved. [10]
These too I read secretly, making excuses for not joining in the usual amusements. [9]
Before the Eletto quitted the city, he gave Hans Eitelfritz, whose regiment had secretly joined the mutiny, letters of safeguard for his family and the artist, Moor. [10]
So the august prelate secretly entered into communication with Barine's uncle. [10]
You not only persistently disregard my wishes and commands, but you have, for many months, been leading a double life, facing me every day, while you were secretly and continually disobeying me. [9]
The Duke was overjoyed, and thereupon secretly made ready for Philip's formal adoption and succession. [11]
We doubtless owed our initiation on the second day into everything which was done by the pupils, both openly and secretly, to the good impression made by Martin. [10]
I secretly think, on the contrary, I ought to be put in prison, and kept on bread and water in solitary confinement--without even a letter from Cornhill--till I had written a book. [14]
My life-long habit of unwillingness to accept what life sent in its ordinary course was asserting itself; but Maude took her friends as she found them, and I was secretly annoyed by her lack of discrimination. [9]
At Sillery, west of the town, there was a hollow in the cliffs, up which men, secretly conveyed above the town by water, could climb. [11]
But it was now allowable for him to think secretly of possessing Daphne; perhaps she would wait for him and reject other suitors until he learned in the capital whether he might not hope to recover his lost sight. [10]
She herself desired nothing better; yet it secretly incensed her and pierced her soul with pain to see herself at twenty unwedded, while far less attractive companions of her own age had long been wives and mothers. [10]
Perhaps she did not go so far as this; but what she read in the newspapers of moneymaking in these days made her secretly uneasy, and she found herself wishing that he were definitely practicing some profession, or engaged in some one solid occupation. [4]
But is there none among you who has not secretly used profane words and, neither in secret nor openly, has repented? [11]
At last human nature surrendered, and I secretly slipped my boots off. [5]
I tell your Nancy----" "For goodness sake, Si----" "Wait, Nancy, wait--let me finish--I've been secretly bailing and fuming with this grand inspiration for weeks, and I must talk or I'll burst! [5]
As a next move, I paid a private visit to that old cave of Merlin's--not the small one--the big one--" "Yes, the one where we secretly established our first great electric plant when I was projecting a miracle. [5]
When the four met again, Billy had nothing to communicate, as he had been taken ill during the night before, and had been unable to go secretly into Chaudiere village. [11]
If he had married her secretly and left her at the altar, so keeping the vow he had made her when she promised to become his wife, that might have been pardonable. [11]
Though the young man's father went secretly to the Mamour, and offered him backsheesh, even to the tune of a feddan of land, the Mamour refused to accept it. [11]
That night the man who cared for the horse died secretly as had done his master, with the Queen's glove pressed to his nostrils by one whom Cecil could trust. [11]
So, secretly, I made this cellar into a temple. [11]
Somehow, secretly, he looked upon the assault and his wound as a blessing. [11]
He did not look particularly emaciated, for many a grain of the doves' food had been secretly added to his scanty ration of meat. [10]
Her wish to look into his eyes once more before his death or hers was fulfilled, and his glance, which had certainly been the last that he could give her, had expressed the kind feeling and forgiveness for which she had secretly yearned. [10]

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