unbosoming

Example Sentences

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Assuredly he had come with no intention at all of unbosoming himself before a couple of ladies.

From Poison Island by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

It was necessary to guess, so rare was any instance of his unbosoming himself to either friends or confidants.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various

Mrs. Kilgore, by virtue of her finer feminine nervous organization, understood him so readily that he saw he had made a mistake in not unbosoming himself to her at first.

From Two Days' Solitary Imprisonment 1898 by Bellamy, Edward

It was as though the concentration, the tension, which he observed in her, and of which he was sensible in himself, must of necessity eventuate in some unbosoming, some act—almost involuntary—of self-revelation.

From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas

Then he pulled himself together, and somehow found himself standing over by Mr. Faber's chair, unbosoming himself of his fright and corresponding joy.

From Five Little Peppers at School by Heyer, Hermann