"Unbosom" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... travelling saloon for the place of the meeting and gave him a rousing reception. Before General Botha spoke, he permitted his opponents (to the evident displeasure of the majority of the audience) to unbosom their alleged grievance. Appreciative addresses were read expressing confidence in the Government and approval of the expedition to German South West Africa. Addresses opposing the expedition were also read; they included one that was said to be a petition from Boer women, strongly ...
— Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since • Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
... the walls of the pleasant little room, he found it easy to unbosom himself. He described his interview with his ...
— That Lass O' Lowrie's - 1877 • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... if to decide whether I was worthy of these confidences. There was something wistful in his brown eyes. I suppose the inspection must have been favourable, or he was in a mood when a man must unbosom himself to someone, for he proceeded to open his heart to me. A man in his particular line of business, I imagine, finds few confidants, and the strain probably becomes ...
— The Little Nugget • P.G. Wodehouse
... in the highest good humor and bursting with news. She did not wait to get out of her coat before she began to unbosom herself to them both, alternately addressing ...
— Miss Pat at School • Pemberton Ginther
... myself free, and I can, without constraint, show thee the extent of my keen sorrows; I can give vent to my sad sighs; I can unbosom to thee my soul and all my griefs. My father is dead, Elvira; and the first sword with which Rodrigo armed himself has cut his thread of life. Weep, weep, mine eyes, and dissolve yourselves into tears! The one half of my life [i.e. Rodrigo] has ...
— The Cid • Pierre Corneille
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