arriere-pensee

Example Sentences

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As yet, however, let the student of his history understand, they were not tinged with the slightest "arriere-pensee."

From Stella Fregelius by Haggard, Henry Rider

This question would doubtless have elicited a categorical reply; but somehow, the consciousness of an arriere-pensee made me shrink from putting such a question.

From The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English by Hawthorne, Julian

At any rate I kept on my guard, so that Miss Tita should not have occasion again to ask me if I had an arriere-pensee.

From The Aspern Papers by James, Henry

Dick meant nothing by this speech more than his words implied: he was far too good-natured for an arriere-pensee.

From Not Like Other Girls by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

That the dinner was merely hospitality to a refugee landed upon our shores in distress; and that my presidency would take away any suspicion that there was the slightest arriere-pensee in the matter.

From Canada and the States by Watkin, E. W. (Edward William)