Confessions
[kən'feʃnz]
Examples
- It is hard when, before seven days of marriage are over, such thoughts and confessions as these force themselves on a little bride's mind. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Formul? and confessions were tried over. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I blushed and hung my head before Mrs. Gill, when she ought to have been faltering confessions to me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In the defensive declarations and pretended confessions of murderers, the pursuing shadow of this torture may be traced through every lie they tell. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Nothing but the saddest of all confessions that a man can make--the confession of his own folly. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Moreover, it was actually true that he was fearful of the effect which such confessions might have on Dorothea herself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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