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

He had been confiding in her—George had known the story he told her—no one else.

From Old Kensington by Thackeray, Miss

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

I should say," said Francis with perfect calm, "that our honorable friend Mr. Logan had been confiding in you.

From I've Married Marjorie by Widdemer, Margaret

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