Example Sentences

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He contributed to the quiet he wished for by offering no violence, no contention, and to do this he had to retire into secretness, since there is some violence in everyone.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

And as he stood and looked at them the mask of age and secretness vanished.

From Imaginations and Reveries by Russell, George William

The face of the god shone through the face of the old man, and filled with awe, it was so full of secretness.

From AE in the Irish Theosophist by Russell, George William

The woman became more anxious to know; the secretness of the thing, and the silence of the youth, did but inflame her curiosity.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

He has tales of a thousand incarnations hidden away in secretness.

From AE in the Irish Theosophist by Russell, George William