That's what we did; for I'm bound to confess that Linton was largely influenced by my advice in the matter.
He is not satisfied with forcing us to confess that Pitt was a great orator, a vigorous minister, an honourable and high-spirited gentleman.
In festive war the sea and land engage, And echoing shouts confess the joyful rage.
By night our fathers' shades confess their fear, Their shrieks of terror from the tombs we hear.
When incidents, character, and conduct confess the resemblance, we may, with certainty, pronounce from whence the copy is taken.
Once more the translator is tempted to confess his opinion, that the contrary practice of Homer and Virgil affords, in reality, no reasonable objection against the exclamatory exuberances of Camoens.
The religion and manufactures of the Siamese, in particular, confess the resemblance.
It is to be regretted, but--confess you have brought it upon yourself?
Besides--such was his overweening pride--to hear a woman confess she cared for another dampened his own ardor, instead of stimulating it.
But confess now, you did not call to tell me that?
Can you confessthat you are selfish, self-seeking--devilish?
He is doing a dastardly thing, and the burden is laid on you toconfess to the secret you have been hiding and tell the truth.
Why, my reason for coming here was to confess my crime, but they won't give me the chance.
But I confess I don't believe it is possible to get away from this hotel.
I confess I thought, on first seeing this message or whatever it is, that there must be simply a coincidence of name and that somebody's idle scribbling had found its way into old van U.
Swift, when burning with animosity against the Whigs, could not but confess to Stella that, after all, he had never known any associate so agreeable as Addison.
We have been agreeably disappointed; and we must confess that, if the epistolary style of Lord Byron was artificial, it was a rare and admirable instance of that highest art which cannot be distinguished from nature.
It is very reluctantly that Seneca can be brought to confess that any philosopher had ever paid the smallest attention to anything that could possibly promote what vulgar people would consider as the well-being of mankind.
Heresy is the author of progress, and I confess myself a heretic on many of the current doctrines of the science of sounds.
I shall not here attempt to discuss the question with so high an authority, and I must confess that the vocal index is not yet so well defined that it may be relied upon in classifying apes.
I must confess that I cannot discern in what intrinsic way the love they have for me differs from my own for them.
From what I heard the girls say, I confess that I was somewhat afraid that his majesty would propose bestowing his daughter on me at once, and was greatly relieved when I found he had not in any way alluded to the subject.
I confess it, I never was in such a fright before.
Indeed, I mustconfess that both his jokes and stories were stale, and it might be added "flat and unprofitable.
While thus seated, I confess that, unexpectedly, my eyes closed.
I certainly thought that he would be grateful to me for what I had done, but I confess that he exhibits his gratitude in a very awkward manner as far as I am concerned.
I can solve the mystery then," he answered; "I confess that I have been the cause of your detention.
But I believe I must fairlyconfess that the Italian sky, in the daytime, is bluer and brighter than our own, and that the atmosphere has a quality of showing objects to better advantage.
To confess the truth, I took more interest in a fair Gothic monument, in white marble, of Pope Benedict XII.
But I lost her when I was a little older than you are, and for years had to struggle on alone, for I was too proud to confess my weakness to anyone else.
I don't wish to make you vain, but I must confess that I'm prouder of my handsome husband than of all his money.
Mr. Bhaer, continuing toconfess the young sinner, who stood upon the knee, exploring the waistcoat pocket.
It irritated her, but she was ashamed to confess it, and now and then she tried to console herself by buying something pretty, so that Sallie needn't think she had to economize.
In due time the pair are caught by the Marquis, and to avoid his rage confess their prior marriage.
When he finds that his father has designed to bestow his hand upon the heiress of an India merchant, he dares not confess his fault, but lets himself be carried to Plymouth to meet his intended bride.
I must confess that the perfect discipline, order, and cheerfulness at Gibraltar were only a second wonder in the great stronghold.
Here I confess a weakness: I hugged the shore entirely too close.
However, there is a place left for your preservation, if you be willing to accept of it; and God is easily reconciled to those that confess their faults, and repent of them.
I confessfreely that it is a brave thing to die for liberty; but still so that it be in war, and done by those who take that liberty from us; but in the present case our enemies do neither meet us in battle, nor do they kill us.
I have explored a portion of the exquisitely beautiful shores of the upper Mississippi; and am ready to confess that until now, I had little idea of the extent, the grandeur, or the resources of the west.
This piece of news has not occasioned me much surprise, I always believed in the potency of beauty to carry all before it; but, shall I confess it?
Your invitation," replied I, "was so pressingly enforced, that I confess my curiosity has been most keenly awakened.
I must confess that Marin only accepted my proposition with much reluctance, but still he did accept it, and withdrew, meditating, no doubt, how he should be enabled to satisfy both Chamilly and myself.
If we passed a short time without meeting he wrote to me, and I confess I was delighted with a correspondence which formed my own style.
However, if the whole truth must be owned, I ought to confess that my chief consolation was derived from a young cousin of my own, who freely lavished upon me that unbounded affection I would fain have sought from my husband.
In truth, sire, I must confess to you, that except yourself and the ladies, I have not many likings at Versailles.
My sentiments were not inquired into, nor, to confess the truth, was such an investigation usual, or deemed a matter of any import.
I confess that the victory will not be easy at first, but there is no need to exaggerate the difficulties.
I confess it, indeed," answered Louis XV; "but the unfortunate sufferer herself was not without a due share of blame in the matter.
These splendid prospects excited her jealous envy, and she came here to confess the whole to me, requesting I would seek you out and inform you of the whole affair.
He pronounced this blasphemy in a laughing tone, and I confess I could not help joining in the laugh, and then hastened to comply with his directions.
I confess I came this morning but to sound your courage, and already you have driven me off the field vanquished.
Strype[123] is obliged to confess that the Act was "grossly abused, as the Act in the former King's reign for dissolving religious houses was.
Of all these things was he ignorant, and Lesley (sure that he had never received her offering) would have seen Sidney Cremer's forty horse-power Gloria burnt before her eyes rather than confess what she had done.
What good would it do him, she thought, for her to confess who had proposed a runaway marriage?
Thus the best sign of originality lies in taking up a subject and then developing it so fully as to make every one confessthat he would hardly have found so much in it.
We more readily confessto errors, mistakes, and shortcomings in our conduct than in our thought.
Aside from the regret and horror and shame that I feel to have survived when every woman drowned, I confess to that feeling too.
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