had been confiding
- past perfect progressive of confide.
Example Sentences
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Joseph had been confiding his thoughts about plural marriage to his most trusted confederates throughout the 1830s.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2014
It might vex Mademoiselle Gonfalon—to learn that she had been overheard—or—she might doubt your having heard, and think I had been confiding to you a presumptuous and unfounded belief of her partiality for myself.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 by Various
He had been confiding in her—George had known the story he told her—no one else.
From Old Kensington by Thackeray, Miss
"What then do you think it is, Ike?" said the doctor, to whom Ike had been confiding this opinion.
From The Prospector by Connor, Ralph
I saw you with Mr. Beauclerk in the garden then, and he told me afterward you had been confiding in him about your cousin.
From April's Lady A Novel by Hungerford, Margaret Wolfe
