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Example sentences for "great secret"

  • I know not what will come of it; but I tell you as a great secret that I have made the Duke of Ormond promise me to recommend nobody till he tells me, and this for some reasons too long to mention.

  • It's no great secret, though all is mystery to such as doesn't study the Lord and His mighty ways with humility and thankfulness.

  • There is no great secret, Saltwater, concerning our port and object, though it is forbidden to talk much about either in the garrison.

  • It's no great secret," returned Pathfinder, laughing with great inward glee, though habitual caution prevented the emission of any noise.

  • F has a lover, but it is a great secret; he is the only son of one of the noblest of our families.

  • My sister has told me about the masquerade," said he, "but I have a great secret to confide in you.

  • When she saw me entirely metamorphosed into a nun, she told me that she was going to trust me with a great secret, but that she entertained no fear of my discretion.

  • But that they could discover the Great Secret of the Hun, and convey to the world by means of their pigeons some details of the discovery, she felt reasonably certain.

  • He had added nothing to what he had already disclosed, boasted no more volubly about the "great secret," as he called it.

  • Oh, that is a great secret, which I do not consider myself at liberty to reveal,' she said in a tantalizing tone, which convinced me that she was piqued because I had mentioned a secret.

  • The kennel being a great secret, I put up with this nuisance, rather than betray his Imperial Highness.

  • From me, the Grand Duke, by Brockdorf's advice, kept the transport of these troops a great secret.

  • Paul kept his mother's manuscript a great secret, and never entrusted it to any one but the friend of his childhood Prince Alexander Kourakine.

  • Why didst Thou confide to Phoenicians a great secret of the state?

  • It is a great secret which no common man knows, not one in the world.

  • Professor Einsiedel had looked cautiously about him as he walked, as if fearing some one might overhear the great secret he was about to reveal.

  • Eric was startled to hear this matter, which had been regarded as a great secret, here spoken of so openly.


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