We had already been up to the granary once with our horses, having taken them loaded away, and secreted several sacks of wheat in a wood a little from the turnpike road, and about three miles from the house.
To avoid observation, it was advisable that his valuables should be secreted somewhere near, but not in the house.
He remained secreted in Ashton a few days, and then left the place for ever.
They are made up of mucous glands and a colorless tenacious fluid issecreted by them, which lubricates the vagina.
The first fluidsecreted by the "breast" (mammary gland) after confinement.
He needs what is then secreted and it is also good for the mother to try to nurse as soon as possible.
Let the vessel enter the harbor at night with her men secreted below deck; steer her directly on board the frigate, and then let the men and officers board, sword in hand, and there is no doubt of their success.
This is in reality lifeless material, and is secreted by the rest of the cell.
Illustration: They peered intently at the yawl's portholes] The boys secreted themselves.
Under the tail, and in the very same place with the civets, it has a pouch, in which is secreted a kind of perfume, but is much weaker, and its scent soon evaporates.
The moisture which exudes from this aperture in the back of the Mexican hog, is secreted by large glands, which M.
He had secreted himself in a pit, and tried to drown himself, but could not do so, for he always floated on the top of the water.
The delinquent states that during the day he secreted himself under different beds and in cupboards, until at last he obtained an entrance into the room in which he was discovered.
In Northern Africa, with the Abyssinians, tears are secretedunder the same circumstances.
It is not, of course, meant that tears cannot be secreted without the contraction of these muscles; for it is notorious that they are often freely shed with the eyelids not closed, and with the brows unwrinkled.
There was sometimes a little moisture in the eyes, but not more than apparently could be accounted for by the squeezing out of the already secreted tears within the glands.
To return to our point: why are tears secreted during a screaming-fit or other violent expiratory efforts?
How quickly the old turkey discovers the hawk, a mere speck against the sky, and how quickly the hawk discovers you if you happen to be secreted in the bushes or behind the fence near which he alights!
After about twenty-four hours their patience is rewarded, the honey is turned into wax, minute scales of which are secreted from between the rings of the abdomen of each bee; this is taken off and from it the comb is built up.
One December morning a troop of jays discovered a little screech-owl secreted in the hollow trunk of an old apple-tree near my house.
I began to doubt the ability of the parent birds themselves to find it, and so secreted myself and watched.
At the same time she had other property secreted and saved in other places.
It is possible also that the capsule-membrane is not formed between the endoplasm and exoplasm (as here supposed), but that the membrane was formed first outside the cell and the extracapsulum subsequently secreted around it.
The gemmules or capsular buds (hitherto described as "extracapsular bodies") are developed on the surface of young central capsules before these had secreted a membrane.
The skeleton consists of matter secreted by certain cells from material in the water and food, and is either horny, calcareous, or siliceous.
Further, if we examine the plant in its natural state, we find that the carbonate of lime is not secreted uniformly in all parts, but that the nodes of the jointed frond are free from the stony deposit, and are therefore flexible.
They are composed of fine layers of calcareous matter secreted by the body of the worm within, and lined by a thin leathery membrane which may be easily exposed by dissolving away the mineral matter as just described.
The first dorsal fin is distinct and spinous, and the spines, as well as others that are developed on the gill-covers, are grooved for the passage of a poisonous fluid that is secreted at their bases.
First, then, while the young of fishes are almost invariably produced from eggs and are not nourished by the parents, the young of the porpoise are produced alive, and are nourished with milk secreted by the mammary glands of the mother.
As is the case with the lamellibranchs, the shell is composed of both animal and mineral substance, the latter being a calcareous deposit secreted by the mantle of the animal.
Under the stimulus of sexual thoughts this fluid is secreted in such quantity as to give rise to involuntary discharge during sleep.
But Ne no Omi, covetous of the gems, secreted the coronet, and told the Emperor that Okusaka had rejected the proposal with scorn.
Some maintained that the animal secreted an acid which had the power of dissolving not only various kinds of stone, but also wood, amber, wax, and other substances, in which the excavations are occasionally made.
When particular parts of the body were changed, these modifications must change the mixture of materials in the blood by the substances secreted by the changed parts.
But O'Donoghue believes that milk is secreted in Dasyurus when no pregnancy has occurred.
Originally in the reptilian ancestor, or in the Monotreme, the ovum in the follicle secreted yellow-coloured yolk.
It was his task also to receive the alms which charitable people bestowed on the blind man, and part of this he secreted in his mouth, until, by dint of practice, he was able to hide a goodly treasure of copper money in that receptacle.
Between them they dug a cave in a garden near the sea, and secreted in it, one by one, fourteen Christian slaves, who were secretly fed during several months by the help of another renegade known as El Dorador.
A certain old apothecary, who had always found him honest in his dealings, sent him to a foreign merchant with a large quantity of silver, and this Guzman secreted in a large hole by the riverside.
One person went so far as to tell them that the men they sought were secreted in Mr. Davenport's house.
Taking the ammunition doled out to him by his Indian guards, he added to it that which he had secreted in the woods, and was ready for the desperate enterprise which he designed.
The lieutenant secreted himself as well as he could, and waited.
The gelatinous envelope which is secreted by many of the chromacea is also formed by a simple physical (or chemical) process.
But the acid fluid which serves for digestion, and corresponds to the gastric juice in the animal, is only secreted by the corpuscles if the solid foreign body is nitrogenous (flesh or cheese).
Their epidermis has secreted a thin covering of chitine, in the tubular worms a leather-like or calcified tube.
Shortly after dark a young lady who had secreted around her waist under her clothes, two pistols, a belt and scabbard which belonged to a Confederate soldier, just after dark came to the bridge and wanted to cross.
I secreted a knife in my bosom, and sat in silent expectation of the issue.
The lass secreted herself in a dark corner of the fire-place.
The third night the old woman again secreted herself, when one of the knights remarked, "By Jove!
In company with William Naylor secreted in a vessel, he was brought away and delivered to the Committee for aid and counsel, which he received, and thus ended his bondage.
I was secreted for a long time in a kitchen of a merchant near the corner of Franklyn and 7th streets, at Richmond, where I was well taken care of, by a lady friend of my mother.
This showed that Davis was willing to risk heavy expenses for Charles as well as gave evidence that he believed him still secreted either about Richmond, Petersburg, or Old Point Comfort.
These three interesting passengers were brought away snugly secreted in Captain B's.
How much I wish the poor thing could be secreted in some safe place till she is able to travel Northward; but where that could be it's not easy to see.
The Captain was told that they had received a telegraphic dispatch from Norfolk to the effect that his boat was suspected of having slaves secreted thereon.
She was conveyed from Richmond secreted on a steamer under the care of one of the colored hands on the boat.
On third day morning about four o'clock, they broke jail; six of them are secreted in the neighborhood, and the writer has not known what became of the other two.
Fully aware of the dangerous consequences should he be detected, the captain, faithful to his promise, secreted them in the usual manner, and set sail northward.
Dressed in male attire, Clarissa left the miserable coop where she had been almost without light or air for two and a half months, and unmolested, reached the boat safely, and was secreted in a box by Wm.
When brought from his hiding-place, he was found to be a Fugitive Slave, who had secreted himself there before the vessel left Savannah on Wednesday, and had remained in that place from the time of starting!
Although closely secreted in Norfolk, he had, through friends, some little communication with the outside world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "secreted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
