"Confide" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with a gasp of thankfulness. Here was someone to confide in and advise with. The stretch of lonely waiting was at an end; it had been ...
— The Gloved Hand • Burton E. Stevenson
... relations or friends to whom he could confide her. There were reasons why he was unwilling to appoint a guardian and send her back to their former home, and so, at last, he resolved to commit her to the care of his early friend and college mate, Laurence Bancroft, a wealthy merchant of ...
— Virgie's Inheritance • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... these bills, made out upon stamped paper, but as it was stained with blood, had burned it. More than that she positively refused to confess, met all questions with a stolid silence, and declared finally that whatever else she knew she would confide to her confessor alone. ...
— The German Classics, v. 20 - Masterpieces of German Literature • Various
... voice of the nation at large would be in favour of such a measure, and they might, if sincere, act more decisively, without risk to themselves.—The truth is, they would willingly proscribe the persons of the Jacobins, while they cling to their principles, and still hesitate whether they shall confide in a people whose resentment they have so much deserved, and have so much reason to dread. Conscious guilt appears to shackle all their proceedings, and though the punishment of some subordinate agents cannot, in the present state of things, be dispensed with, yet the Assembly ...
— A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, • An English Lady
... that he might go to his father, and confide the matter to him, asking him on his honour not to do anything likely ...
— In Honour's Cause - A Tale of the Days of George the First • George Manville Fenn
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