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Example sentences for "must confess"

  • Sometimes, I must confess, I wake up in the morning and listen to these institution noises, and sniff this institution air, and long for the happy, carefree life that by rights is mine.

  • I must confess that I get lonely for some one who talks my kind of nonsensical talk.

  • I must confess," he said, "that sometimes your husband puzzles me.

  • In answer I wrote Katya a long and, I must confess, a very boring letter.

  • And I must confess I am afraid: her brother and she have a strange way of thinking; they look at things strangely, you know, and her disposition is very impetuous.

  • She had been about four years on her travels, and during those four years, I must confess, I had played a rather strange and unenviable part in regard to her.

  • Of course, it would be more patriotic to read Russian authors, but I must confess I cherish no particular liking for them.

  • I must confess it was not happily expressed.

  • Being a member of the Hospital Committee, I must confess to a bemused share in the popular enthusiasm.

  • I must confess that I was just a little puzzled by his exuberant welcome.

  • To that sense of humour my upbraidings, often, I must confess, couched in picturesque and figurative terms so as not too greatly to hurt his feelings, had made constant appeal for the past fifteen years.

  • I must confess that my mind being so full of Betty, I had clean forgotten Tufton.

  • I must confess that on their first few parades they did not look very military.

  • I must confess, however, I rather doubt the truth of the now very prevalent doctrine of all our domestic animals having descended from several wild stocks; though I do not doubt that it is so in some cases.

  • How people survive two or three days under such circumstances, I cannot imagine: at the same time, I must confess that my guide did not suffer at all, and was astonished that one day's deprivation should be so troublesome to me.

  • I must confess, Mr Arabin, that from you I expected a different sort of usage.

  • Well, I must confess he's not very nice,' said Charlotte Stanhope.

  • Well, I must confess he's not very nice," said Charlotte Stanhope.

  • I must confess, Mr. Arabin, that from you I expected a different sort of usage.

  • I must confess, en passant, that the anecdote about the coffee is true.

  • In truth, sire, I must confess to you, that except yourself and the ladies, I have not many likings at Versailles.

  • I must confess, however, that these proceedings on the part of madame de Pompadour were by no means agreeable to me, and I even prefer your ignorance of politics to her incessant interference with them.

  • When I was alone, I must confess a few tears escaped me, but I soon wiped them away; my resolution was taken.

  • But I must confess I am a coward," said Desiree.

  • We took tea with her the following afternoon in her apartment, and I must confess that I myself was more than a little impressed when I entered.

  • For two hours we sat, running the scale from business to sentiment, and I must confess that I was more than once surprised by a flash from Harry.

  • The face was Donna Elvira's, I must confess; But out of its mouth came clouds of fire, its arms were loaded with heavy chains which it rattled piteously, and every hair on its head was a Serpent as big as my arm!

  • As for its fellow, the ceiling, that is, I must confess, a sore point with me in my attempts at making the best of it.

  • The just command which He upon us lays, We must confess we have ten thousand ways Transgressed; for see how men their sins pursue, As if they did not fear what God could do.


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