Concealed

Examples

• If you had leanings in the other direction, I will do you the justice to say that I have no doubt you would not have concealed them from the world. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• A low, stealthy sound came to my ears, not from the direction of Baker Street, but from the back of the very house in which we lay concealed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Yes; where else can they be so well concealed? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• You were satisfied that he could not have been concealed in the room all the time, or in the corridor which you have just described as dimly lighted? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I made up a story as short and probable as I could, but concealed the greatest part. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• This was effected by having the twenty-six letters painted on a board, and concealed from view by a number of small paper screens, which were attached to magnetic needles. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Then I told Ada how I had seen her hand concealed under her pillow and had little thought why, my dear. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But what was the mystery to be concealed? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• So cleverly was the colonel concealed that, even when the Moriarty gang was broken up, we could not incriminate him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I was scarcely hid, when a young girl came running towards the spot where I was concealed, laughing as if she ran from some one in sport. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The cloud settled upon the picture, and concealed it from the sexton's view. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It must still be where Lucas had placed it, for it was concealed before this dreadful woman entered the room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is his pleasure, answered Gurth, that they be concealed; and from me, assuredly, you will learn nought of them. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The excellence of his understanding and his principles can be concealed only by that shyness which too often keeps him silent. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Unfortunately, the suggestion is not practical; a fallacy is concealed in it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I hear some one saying that wickedness is not easily concealed, to which I reply that nothing great is easy. Plato. The Republic.
• My senses were overpowered, and I scarcely regretted my stern guide, when the windings of the mountain concealed him from my sight. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Nothing connected with Charles was concealed from me. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• My own convictions led me to believe that the hidden contents of the parchment concealed a transaction of the meanest and the most fraudulent kind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And yet there were indications there, had they not been overlaid by other details which concealed their true import. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The suspicion crossed him as he rested in a doorway with his eyes upon the Temple gate, that perhaps she was even concealed in that set of Chambers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Wonderful, say I, to think that you have been concealed so long, and in so small a compass, that I really did not know of your existence. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He stepped directly to the panel, touched the concealed button, and as the door swung open he stood aside while his companions entered with me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• During the time that either of the views is altogether concealed, the painting is changed; and in this manner an unlimited number of metamorphoses may be effected. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Porter's fleet was on the east side of the river above the mouth of the Yazoo, entirely concealed from the enemy by the dense forests that intervened. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They both tried to appear as usual; but the sorrow they had to struggle against was one that could not be entirely conquered or concealed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Buglers, concealed from our view by the brush on the opposite side, sounded the assembly, and other military calls. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I did see him from a sly corner of my window; but I resisted all my desires and remained concealed. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• This was the hidden law of her heart, which she concealed with childish reserve, and cherished the more because it was secret. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They were on the north side of the point so that their presence was concealed from those at the cabin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Typist: Marion