From this point he proceeded at a rapid though less furious pace direct to the Grotto, where he presented himself to the superintendent with the remark that he had "come back to make a clean breast of it.
If I might advise you, Mr. Cotter, I should say, carry out your intention as far as making a clean breast of it is concerned.
At that moment he was within a hair’s breadth of making a clean breast of it all to his wife.
You know no doubt that most criminals at some time or other feel an irresistible need of confessing—of making a clean breast of it to somebody—to anybody.
Her object attained in astute secrecy, the heroic old woman had made a clean breast of it to Mrs Verloc.
By cross-examination and adroit suggestive questionings, I always brought them to make a clean breast of it, and their avowals furnished me with matter for exquisite amusement.
There I found her still in bed; and sitting down, I begged her to make a clean breast of everything which concerned Signor Gratarol.
I've had a little trouble myself," declared Jimmy hotly, now resolved to make a clean breast of it.
Alfred will have to know sooner or later, so we might as well make a clean breast of it, first as last.
Zoie gazed from Alfred to Aggie, then at Jimmy, then resolving to make a clean breast of the matter, she sidled toward Alfred with her most ingratiating manner.
Well now, I'll make a clean breastof it to you, my dear Dragon.
I'm glad I've made a clean breastof it all to you, George.
On Monday, the 10th, remorse of conscience seized his mind, and he sent to the Sheriff, wishing to make a clean breast, and to tell the truth.
But the laudable intention which Smith, since his apprehension, had evinced “of making a clean breast” was not destined to gain for him any temporal advantage.
Make a clean breast of it, wunst and for all, and get rid of the wisions that's a 'aunting of yer day and night.
It would have been better for me had I made a clean breast of it there and then, had I confided to him the awful sorrow which lay like a poisonous worm in my heart.
She had said very little of the past since her recovery, but on this occasion she made a clean breast of everything to John Saxon.
I know, too, that you will counsel me to do the only right thing left, and that is to make a clean breast of everything to Mrs Lyttelton.
Then she added quickly, "There are times when I feel that I can only recover my self-respect by making a clean breast of everything.
He made a clean breast of it to his brother that evening, who, of course, called him an ass, and everything else complimentary, and was deservedly angry.
The next morning early, before breakfast, Oliver joined the Doctor in his study, and made a clean breast to him there and then of Stephen's delinquencies.
What I advise you is, to make a clean breast of it to the Doctor at once.
Pinto has made a clean breast of everything, but he still insists that you murdered Gage.
Perhaps by adroitly working on the policeman's evident pusillanimity he could induce him to make a clean breast of it.
He is not making a clean breast of things so long as he denies his guilt.
The Duke of Marlborough has taken the matter in hand, and will, I have no doubt, be able to obtain for you some lesser punishment, if you make a clean breast of it.
I take it that you give me your word of honour, that if I make a clean breast of it, and stick to my story afterwards, this other business shall not be brought up against me.
Then force him to make a clean breast of it, so we can all know where we stand; how we can best protect his aunt from ruin and his wife and boy from public disgrace.
To the artist he had made a clean breastof everything, so that he might, once for all, set Peter right in the eyes of his future father-in-law.
I might be more inclined to give you a chance if you made a clean breast of it.
If he could persuade Graham to make a clean breast of it to the Doctor, the brother who meant so much to him might be saved from a disaster which would not merely affect himself, but others,--a wife and children perhaps.
Well, Paul,' said his father, 'are ye in the mind to make a clean breast of it?
There was no further shame in making a clean breast of it.
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