Neither the statesman nor the Queen could read the secrets of the future, nor know that each would come to regard the other as an enemy.
She refused to pass on the secrets of the King, or to play in any way into the hands of his minister, whose jealous anger was aroused and who determined to part her from her royal friend.
Be that as it may, he by gradual stages intimated to me that Updegraff would convey me secrets of "The Seven" in exchange for a guarantee that I would not attack his interests.
The Yale man replied to these overtures of friendship with the offer of his cigarette case, his name and the secrets of his heart.
It wasn't surprising, therefore, that Stewart was growing tired of the life of continual mystery, of developments that never developed, of secrets that were empty and surprises that faded away into nothing.
Charming secrets and invitations and news out of those with whom she came in contact.
You see, every year means a tightening--yes, a tightening, as arms and armies grow more complicated and the maintaining of staff secrets more important.
Young Colonel Lanstron's was the duty of gaining the secrets of the Gray staff and keeping those of the Brown and organizing up-to-the-moment efficiency in the new forces of the air.
Our very liberality in giving news will help us to cover the military secrets which we desire to preserve," Partow said, with slow emphasis.
If they had mothers or sisters they were the secretsof each man's heart.
Unless the unity of languages is realized, the Most Great Peace and the oneness of the human world cannot be effectively organized and established because the function of language is to portray the mysteries and secrets of human hearts.
He penetrates the secrets of the sea in submarines and builds fleets to sail at will over the ocean’s surface, commanding the laws of nature to do his will.
Resuscitate us; give us sight; give us hearing; familiarize us with the mysteries of life, so that the secrets of Thy kingdom may become revealed to us in this world of existence and we may confess Thy oneness.
The animal cannot penetrate the secretsof genesis and creation.
All the existing arts and sciences were once hidden secrets of nature.
By his command and control of nature man took them out of the plane of the invisible and revealed them in the plane of visibility, whereas according to the exigencies of nature these secrets should have remained latent and concealed.
For this reason we say that the spirit of man can penetrate and discover the realities of all things, can solve the secrets and mysteries of all created objects.
While living upon the earth, it discovers the stars and their satellites; it travels underground, finds the metals in their hidden depths and unlocks the secrets of geological ages.
All the industries, inventions and facilities surrounding our daily life were at one time hidden secrets of nature, but the reality of man penetrated them and made them subject to his purposes.
They are not interested in attaining knowledge of the mysteries of God or understanding the secrets of the heavenly Kingdom; what they acquire is based altogether upon visible and tangible evidences.
They will put out your eyes to force you to tell them the secrets of Bahá’u’lláh.
God has conferred upon and added to man a distinctive power—the faculty of intellectual investigation into the secrets of creation, the acquisition of higher knowledge—the greatest virtue of which is scientific enlightenment.
She did not believe, from what she had heard, that Lord Henry Borrowdaile, son of the Marquis of Wastwater, was a man to betray State secrets for money.
It is she who worms out secrets from her husband and sells them to Portheous," Joan said to herself.
She lived in her rose-garden and he in the fields; he had secrets concealed from her and worked desperately without having her as his adviser; he lived his own life apart and she, hers.
Since the married pair had entered into such a close relationship that one could hear the thoughts of the other, he could keep no secrets from her which she did not seize upon forthwith.
The Swede was not backward with her feminine knowledge of feminine secrets to put the worst interpretation on all the details which he narrated.
And in the middle of his preaching he told me all the secrets which, like everyone else, I have kept most jealously hidden from my childhood's days and earlier.
When his wife was angry she went to the old people and narrated all the small and great secrets which a married pair have between themselves; she also repeated what he in moments of irritation had said about them.
She did not bother herself to appear at her best before him but was already free and easy and cynical enough to make herself repugnant by disclosing the unbeautiful secretsof the toilet.
They were great friends, and Hughie shared all his secrets with her and knew that they were safe, unless they ought to be told.
All secrets are not ugly things when their cloaks are off.
But the valet turned toward him with an air which proved that he was well acquainted with the doctor's servant, and, consequently, with all the secrets of the master's life.
And I have confided my most precious secrets to this wicked woman!
I'm sure," said Briggs, "I would be telling you every one of my secrets in a week.
He was an uncouth man, but deeply imbued in thesecrets of his science.
I have described myself as always having been imbued with a fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature.
I collected bones from charnel-houses and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame.
I only said I was too young to do anything about it yet, that I didn't wish to have secrets from you, and he must speak to father.
I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in my mind since you told me that," said Jo rather ungratefully.
She is so funny and dear as she is," said Beth, who had never betrayed that she was a little hurt at Jo's having secrets with anyone but her.
She always “informed herself” about things; it was one of the secrets of her success, she said.
Cary and General Legaie begged him to remain, declaring that they had “no secrets to discuss,” and that they should themselves leave if he did so, as he had been there first.
But there remained depths into which man could not descend, whose secrets were closed to him.
You heard Ynlan before we left--any secrets left will remain secrets.
He will not wish to share his secrets with others.
Those fellows at the big camp are mighty curious to pry into the secrets of our craft here.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "secrets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
