Confessing

Examples

• I don't put you to the pain of confessing it in so many words, because I see and know that you are too honest to deny it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He had died without even so much as confessing he was wrong. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I am never warm, Miss Halcombe, she remarked, with the modest air of a woman who was confessing to one of her own merits. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• And I said, Miss;' here Sissy fairly sobbed as confessing with extreme contrition to her greatest error; 'I said it was nothing. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I brought the paper back with me, and thought of destroying it, since I could see no way of returning it without confessing my guilt to my husband. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• All his nature held him back from confessing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Fred had known men to whom he would have been ashamed of confessing the smallness of his scrapes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I see her confessing that she was not so self-sufficing, so independent of sympathy, as people thought. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Not a particle, but she's a dear, returned Sallie, defending her friend even while confessing her shortcomings. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

Typist: Murray