Secretly

Examples

• Indisputably, Mr. Home owned manly self-control, however he might secretly feel on some matters. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She had some guilty reason for going to the town secretly. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• So, as I told you, the son found our neighbourhood the surest place he could choose to set things right secretly in his own interests. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A fish leaped secretly, revealing the light in the pond. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was the room in which, six months earlier, the merry Christmas party had met, to which Eustacia came secretly and as a stranger. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I said: for I knew she secretly wanted him, and had always wanted him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Engaged since October,secretly engaged. Jane Austen. Emma.
• She had already secretly disobeyed him by asking her father to help them, and he had ended decisively by saying, I am more likely to want help myself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Secretly, I am afraid I was foolish enough to be angry too. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Why do I secretly give Miss Shepherd twelve Brazil nuts for a present, I wonder? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• People will say bad things if they find out that a lady secretly meets a man who has ill-used another woman. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He saw a slave before him in that simple yielding faithful creature, and his soul within him thrilled secretly somehow at the knowledge of his power. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• What does it matter if you take openly or take secretly? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I led the same secretly unhappy life; but I led it in the same lonely, self-reliant manner. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will be. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I must reach the Temple of Issus secretly before the forces under Tars Tarkas assaulted at dawn. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The same result attended the next investigations, which were secretly instituted on the subject of Mrs. Rubelle. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He had secretly interposed against this confiding young man, for no better real reason than because the young man's ways were not his ways. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And she had misgivings and fears which she dared not acknowledge to herself, though she was always secretly brooding over them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He saw that he was cherished in her grateful remembrance secretly, and that they resented him with the jail and the rest of its belongings. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• When I lost the rest, I thought it wise to say nothing about that sum, but to keep it secretly for a rainy day. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• And it sets me asking myself, whether the loss of the Diamond may not mean--that the Diamond must be secretly pledged to pay them. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• To study the human heart thus, is to banquet secretly and sacrilegiously on Eve's apples. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• At night again, when I was secretly at work, locked into my room, I heard the breathing of the women servants who suspected me, outside my door. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You have always been counteracting me secretly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I then went secretly to work and made thirty of the machines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This had been a well-known signal in old times when Wildeve had used to come secretly wooing to Mistover. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Nor was Miss Briggs, although forced to adopt a hostile attitude, secretly inimical to Rawdon and his wife. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This would seem to be secretly agreeable to Wegg, but he veils his feelings, and observes, 'Strange. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was not stated how it was ever discovered whose footprints they were, seeing the interview occurred secretly and at night. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Edited by Adrian