Bought or stolen as children in Abyssinia or Syria, about one in every three survives the infamous knife, to be sold in defiance of the law, and with a pretence of secresy far more revolting than if it were done openly.
Secresy is not a medical restorative, by no means a good thing for the baffled amorously-adventurous cavalier, unless the lady's character shall have been firmly established in or over his hazy wagging noddle.
They have that whisper and waving of secresy in secret scenery; they beckon to the bath; and they conjure classic visions of the pudency of the Goddess irate or unsighted.
His profound secresy in the execution is as astonishing as the design itself.
Mystery and secresy have long been his principal characteristic, have long replaced unlimited confidence.
Such was the secresy with which this measure was conceived and acted on, that Pozzo, who is quicker and has better intelligence than anybody, had not a notion of it, as Matuscewitz told me.
It was, however, determined that the same oath of secresy should be administered to these two gentlemen.
A difficulty here stared them in the face, namely, that they could not enjoin secresy by a solemn oath, as they had done among themselves: nor were they certain that the continental princes would approve of their design.
Here they administered an oath of secresy to each other on a Primer.
Women rarely know men, as their friends read them; for your own sake, let me earnestly entreat secresy this once.
Moreover, Emmy, secresy is needful for the due fulfilment of my purpose.
But for this plan secresy and suddenness were necessary, or the intervening period would have given opportunity and temptation for unlimited mutilation of the coinage.
Secresy would have rendered it impossible to consult Parliament, and Montague, in the existing state of party feeling, shrank from the responsibility this implied.
To complete his blunder, he did not inform Lord Althorp what he had done, and trusted to a promise of secresy on the part of O'Connell, the most untrustworthy of men.
But though speed and secresy were of the first necessity, the expedition hung fire, and news of it reached the ears of the French Government.
Born in mystery,[12] he has always shrouded himself in a secresy which none of his acquaintance have ever endeavoured to penetrate.
Pope fulfilled his pledge by causing a separate edition of 1500 copies to be struck off, and enjoined the printer to lay by the sheets "with great secresytill further orders.
He could hold out the bait of rewards to himself without any risk of betrayal, and the manoeuvre must have been adopted in concert with his accomplice Smythe, upon whose secresy and fidelity he was already dependent.
Strict secresy must be observed; and care must be taken that the clerks whose duty it was to draw up the necessary documents should not entertain any suspicion of the importance of the work which they were performing.
Courage, loyalty and secresy were common between him and Portland.
You have been treated with hospitality by us: reward us by maintaining the most profoundsecresy relative to all you have seen or heard since you have been our companion and guest.
Secresy on all sides is one of the conditions of the present arrangement," said Chichester.
And what guarantee do you offer to ensure eternal secresy on your part, provided Mr. Greenwood will give up this forged bill?
This offender being thus disposed of, and strict secresy being observed to prevent the spread of alarm, a rapid search was set on foot for books in all suspected quarters.
As the day of meeting approached, the Baronet thought seriously of the solicited rencontre, and after enjoining perfect secresy on the part of his friend, Col.
An injunction of secresy had been among Mr. Weston's parting words.
They must both have suffered a great deal under such a system of secresy and concealment.
Her indiscretion became formidable on all occasions when secresy was necessary, and more than once the Duke de Beaufort was obliged to be excluded from the assemblages at which the chiefs of the Fronde took counsel together.
But this negotiation was conducted with such profound secresythat it was only after the accession of Philip V.
Candour is ever best; and if I may presume to suggest to your lordship, I should assuredly beg that no bribe for secresy should be given to my servant.
The fishermen far on the coast, had little intercourse with the town; and then Minnie had implored secresy at their hands, and her wishes were obeyed.
It is difficult for Protestants to realise the secresy of the confessional.
It has been said that in Father Garnet we have one of the most remarkable instances in history of the secresy of the confessional.
Nor does an inclination to secresy meet with less encouragement at school.
As the talent of secresy is of so great importance to society, and the necessary commerce between individuals cannot be securely carried on without it, that this deplorable weakness should be so general is much to be lamented.
The best information and advice in my power is altogether at your lordship's devotion; and, if it is secresy you require, I am dumb as the grave.
Lord, your secresywas unkind, but this triumph is insulting!
I carried the lanthern; and our step was soft as secresy on my part and terror on their's could make it.
And lastly, had I not given way to the fatal mistake that secresy could repair the inability of reason, I had, instead of availing myself of the ruin on the rock, ere now perhaps released Sibella by convincing you.
Various have been the endeavours I have used to understand the nature of his mind's disease; but he has wrapped an impenetrable fold of secresy around his heart.
I thought I had torn myself for ever from the enchantment; and that reserve and secresy were at an end.
In a little glen, between two hills of which the barrenness of one frowns on the cultivation of the other, stands a farm, embosomed hid in secresy and solitude.
Adieu, my sweet friend: may principle alone, not personal fatal experience, teach you, that your present system of secresy is erroneous.
Had he been equal, and had there been no secresy in the case, I would have hailed your marriage.
If you have done service to human kind, or if you have not in fraud and secresy bubbled away your happiness?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "secresy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
