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The newspaper, too, was a vehicle for personal accounts of a quasi-confidential nature, of which I can give a significant example.

From Historical Essays by Rhodes, James Ford

An unknown number of people have almost every week since, speaking perhaps extravagantly, asked me in a quasi-confidential manner, 'How was it that you and Lincoln were so intimate and he never gave you anything?'

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life by Herndon, William H.

For a time talk frothed over Britten's head, but the natural mischief in Mrs. Millingham had been stirred, and she was presently echoing his demand in lisping, quasi-confidential undertones.

From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

"Many of them are quite lady-like," echoed Mrs. Sawbridge suddenly, picking up the whole thing instantly and speaking over her tea cup in that quasi-confidential tone of hers to Mr. Brumley.

From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)