Confidences

Examples

• I may tell you--I trust that I am not indiscreet, but half-confidences are absurd in such a case--that he was not entirely happy at home. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Thereafter she stood a little way apart, but not so far as I should have desired, for I had many little confidences to impart to my long-lost love. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• She had not tried to see Dorset alone: she had positively shrunk from a renewal of his confidences. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• They exchanged confidences, they were intimate in their revelations to the last degree, giving each other at last every secret. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• If we had confidences, they were confidences of the counting-house, not of the heart. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She must be well brought up, and well guarded from reposing any foolish confidences where they are not deserved. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Vows, love, promises, confidences, gratitude, how queerly they read after a while! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Mr. Tulkinghorn is always the same speechless repository of noble confidences, so oddly out of place and yet so perfectly at home. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• That is the plain truth, whether you like it or not)--if such was not the subject of her august confidences, on what point did they turn? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I feared early instilled prejudice: I wanted to have you safe before hazarding confidences. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He is a great reservoir of confidences, not to be so tapped. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He is surrounded by a mysterious halo of family confidences, of which he is known to be the silent depository. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This rendered confidences with Fanny doubly precious to Little Dorrit, and heightened the relief they afforded her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Does not your heart yearn towards her when she pours into your ear her pure, childlike confidences? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Our confidences in you need not clash. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The confidences of lovely women are not to be slighted. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Editor: Rosalie