It certainly has made these birds mighty tender and sweet," confessed Jerry, as he pulled his prize apart with hardly any effort.
He, Noyes, had bared his soul to the husband and confessed a love that now he must stand up and recant.
She had warned Peter that if he as much as hinted at anything that she had confessedto him, she would lie to Monte.
He confessed that this was the first vacation he had taken since he began practice.
It's the same with me," confessed Peter, with a quick breath.
But Thackeray himselfconfessed to a family prejudice against the hero of Blenheim, and later artists have considerably readjusted the likeness.
It must be confessed (he adds drily) that in England this is a lifelong disqualification.
Joam Dacosta ought to have confessed all, or to have fled forever from the house in which he had been so hospitably received, from the establishment of which he had built up the prosperity!
The true author of the crime of Tijuco confessed of his own free will, and described the circumstances under which it had been perpetrated!
Why had he not confessed to him whence he had come, and who he was--above all, at the moment when Magalhaës had place in his hand the hand of the daughter who would never have believed that he was the author of so frightful a crime.
How can this awful matter of my guilt in the sight of that God, the confessed and only source of thy "good," be settled?
He confessed that in former days the youth had been altogether displeasing to him, but now he was a changed character.
Terror-stricken by such a portent, the woman confessedher crime, and was sentenced to perpetual banishment; the slave was crucified.
Then Onesimus confessed his love for Junia, and the wild hope which he still entertained that he might some day be accepted by her.
But, pressed with questions, heconfessed and gloried in the deed.
It must be confessed that nowadays we do not greatly romp through "The Faëry Queene.
His visits to Italy left him cold, and he confessed to a strong preference for the art of the North.
After Corbulo had him brought back before him he confessed that he had been asleep in his cell from some time before Falco's murder until he was aroused by Dromo, just before the arrival of Casperius and Vespronius.
Yet I confessed to myself that, from the time I saw first a bout between them, anticipation of seeing them fence, or enjoyment of it, came very high among my interests and my pleasures.
But, that very day, before dark, Flavius Clemens craved a brief private audience with me and informed me that he had recognized you as Andivius Hedulio and that you had confessed your identity.
The janitor's confessed delinquency explains how they entered and got away unhindered and unseen.
He confessed he had been glad enough to fill his stomach with a few beans.
He was silent: but being pressed by Antony, he confessed that he was sad thereat.
That all did not fulfil the ideal of their profession is to be expected, and is frankly confessedby the writers of the Lives of the Fathers; that there were serious faults, even great crimes, among them is not denied.
But when pressed by him, they confessed that they had never said a foul word to each other, and never quarrelled.
But he confessed that he was a drunkard and a profligate, and had till lately got his living by robbery, and recollected not having ever done one good deed.
Then they met and confessed to each other their disasters, and resolved to take the animal as fast as possible back to Toueno-Boueno, who should get a sound thrashing.
But of a truth, Kai, no man ever confessed an adventure so much to his own dishonour, and strange indeed it seems that none other man have I ever met that knew of the black man, and the knight and the shower.
No one suspected the truth except a priest to whom the queen confessed the truth, and in a few weeks she fell ill and died, leaving the baby to be brought up as became a prince.
The man was afterward arrested, and confessed that he had been hired to do it by a rival company.
Whatever may be said of the respective methods of administration, it must be confessed that the forms of English procedure furnish greater facility in the despatch of business.
His memory was something prodigious, and even men like Dumas and Balzac confessed themselves his inferiors in that respect.
He could now pray heartily; he confessed and lamented his iniquities, with many tears, and began to hope that the mercies of God, through the merits of a Redeemer, might yet be extended to him on his sincere repentance.
He confessed that his wife commonly spent the morning in making puddings, pies, syllabubs, and cakes, to last through the week; as Sunday was the only leisure time she and her maids had.
You confessed as much in that fatal letter, which I have somewhere at home.
I was the first to penetrate his disguise; and that very morning I had taxed him with it, and he had confessed it.
I suppose I'm foolish," she confessed to Aunt Kate the next morning when she told her about it.
The rogue confessed his tricks, and was pardoned, on paying the arrears due for five years, at the old rent of the land.
This was immediately done, and a warrant granted for searching his house; when such strong proofs of guilt appeared against him, that he confessed the murder: for which he was executed.
It must be confessed that these old soldiers of the Empire had a diabolical talent for stratagem!
But within the room, my wife and daughter burst into tears, and I confessed my imprudence.
Prusa, Nice, and Nicomedia, which are fairly confessed by Nicephorus Gregoras, (l.
The most learned Italians of the fifteenth century have confessed and applauded the restoration of Greek literature, after a long oblivion of many hundred years.
Afterward she had had a talk with Sir William, in which he confessed to feeling greatly "troubled" regarding Virgie and her long, unaccountable silence.
It must be confessed that in the two books chosen for analysis--Guy Mannering and The Antiquary--he is disappointing as an artist in nomenclature.
It must be confessed that, if we are left to gather Cromwell's intentions from his instrument of government, it is such a motley piece, that we cannot easily conjecture whether he seriously meant to establish a tyranny or a republic.
They confessed that the parliament had achieved great enterprises, and had surmounted mighty difficulties; yet was it an injury, they said, to the rest of the nation to be excluded from bearing any part in the service of their country.
O'Neale himself confessed the imposture on his trial, and at his execution.
Cromwell, who was witness to the meeting of the royal family, confessed that he never had been present at so tender a scene; and he extremely applauded the benignity which displayed itself in the whole disposition and behavior of Charles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "confessed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
