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Secretly

adverb

In secrecy; not openly. Synonyms: in secret, on the Q.T., on the QT. "The children secretly went to the movies when they were supposed to be at the library" , "They arranged to meet in secret"

Not openly; inwardly. "Hoped secretly she would change her mind"

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"Secretly" Quotes from Famous Books

... whether my being miserable and discontented would help any one or make him less wretched; and he said that we all had to take up our burdens. I assured him I would not shrink from mine, though I felt secretly ashamed of it when I remembered that it was only moles, and he went away with a grave face and a shaking head, back to his wife and his eleven children. I heard soon afterwards that a twelfth baby had been born and his wife had died, ...

— The Solitary Summer • Elizabeth von Arnim

... notion is that this whole book is very much like a map of North America in which the Hudson River is set down as a passage leading to Siberia. We think of Monstrator and Melanicus and of a world that is now in communication with this earth: if so, secretly, with certain esoteric ones upon this earth. Whether that world's Monstrator and Monstrator's Melanicus—must be the subject of later inquiry. It would be a gross thing to do: solve up everything now and leave ...

— The Book of the Damned • Charles Fort

... Nelson had secretly objected when Uncle Jason had asked Judge Little to put off for a full week the examination of Nelson in his court. The unfortunate schoolmaster felt that he wanted the thing over ...

— How Janice Day Won • Helen Beecher Long

... behold. I might not have noticed this, or at all events not have understood it, but for what Scipio had already told me. Now its meaning was unmistakeable, and notwithstanding the "poor Monsieur Antoine!" to which the hypocrite repeatedly gave utterance, I saw plainly that he was secretly delighted at the idea of the old steward's having ...

— The Quadroon - Adventures in the Far West • Mayne Reid

... called and carried him off with all that he had rescued—for which deliverance we were unfeignedly thankful! The war, which he had wickedly instigated, lingered on for three months; and then, by a present given secretly to two leading Chiefs, I managed to bring it to a close. But feelings of revenge for the slain burned fiercely in many breasts; and young men had old feuds handed on to them by the recital of their fathers' ...

— The Story of John G. Paton - Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals • James Paton

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