Secreted
[sɪ'kri:tid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Secrete
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Examples
- Why,' replied Mr. Trotter, 'my master and I, being in the confidence of the two servants, will be secreted in the kitchen at ten o'clock. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The diamonds were sewed into her habit, and secreted in my Lord's padding and boots. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They were taken and secreted. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- His embarkation was clandestine; and if we may credit a tale of the Princess Anna, he passed the hostile sea closely secreted in a coffin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yet when the first of the brothers died, the other, much to his surprise, found large sums of money which had been secreted even from him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The walls of this room were hung with transparent tapestries behind which I secreted myself without being apprehended. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
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