secretness

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

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

From AE in the Irish Theosophist by Russell, George William

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

From Imaginations and Reveries by Russell, George William

Now the continualness, the secretness, yet the always present domesticness of our love; how may we best compass that, without jeopardizing the ever-sacred memory I hinted of?

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

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