frankness

Example Sentences

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If you like these franknesses, I can tell you another.

From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I by Walpole, Horace

Excuse my franknesses; with you, as with God.

From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville

This is her Book of Verses--wren-like notes, Shy franknesses, blind gropings, haunting fears; At times across the chords abruptly floats A mist of passionate tears.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert

Oddly enough Frau Bucher, despite all her bluntness, never let a hint out of the bag of her franknesses before Kirtley.

From Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life by Henry, Stuart Oliver

It was a curious gesture on the part of a man whose franknesses were as clean-cut as his silences.

From The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)