Disclosure

Examples

• I really cannot prevail upon myself to carry this shocking disclosure any farther. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• British Patent No. 2,011, of 1873, to Willis, is the first disclosure of the platinotype. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The disclosure of that secret might, in past years, have hanged him--might now transport him for life. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We heard without sympathy the protestations with which he tried next to persuade us that the disclosure of the conspiracy had overwhelmed him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Gentlemen, I have heard my uncle say, that Tom Smart said the widow's lamentations when she heard the disclosure would have pierced a heart of stone. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• No circumstance of importance, from the beginning to the end of the disclosure, shall be related on hearsay evidence. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The disclosure was made, and the storm raged fearfully. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• No: I fear discovery above all things; and whatever disclosure would lead to it, I avoid. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The French patent to Grassin & Baledans, in 1861, is the first disclosure of a barbed wire fence. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The disclosure of the conspiracy followed, after I had offered my preliminary explanation, first of all, in the fewest and the plainest words. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He preferred waiting for the incidental disclosure which events must soon bring about. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• My chance of ever holding up my head again among honest men depended on my chance of inducing her to make her disclosure complete. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It was the partial disclosure of your secrets,' replied Mr. Brownlow. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The disclosure of to-night,' replied Rose softly, 'leaves me in the same position, with reference to you, as that in which I stood before. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He prepared me, on that fatal night, for his disclosure of my guilt to you. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Touch that--and trust to the consequences for the fullest disclosures that can flow from a woman's lips! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The painful disclosures which were to reveal themselves in my presence, during that Tuesday's visit to Montagu Square, were not at an end yet. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It seemed I could hear all that was to come--whatever the disclosures might be--with comparative tranquillity. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Bulstrode had been in dread of scandalous disclosures on the part of Raffles. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• If the Beaufort smash comes, he announced, there are going to be disclosures. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.

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