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Example sentences for "confidences"

Lexicographically close words:
confidante; confidants; confide; confided; confidence; confident; confidential; confidentiality; confidentially; confidently
  1. Hospitality was extended, and the confidences of a mutual respect soon ensued.

  2. This assistance gave occasion for mutual confidences between the Spaniards and the natives.

  3. The mysterious visits of his son James, and the apparent confidences between him and his employer, made the old man feel strongly that, if James were not a part of the new condition, at least he was acquainted with the cause.

  4. Joe and I being fellow-sufferers, and having confidences as such, Joe imparted a confidence to me the moment I raised the latch of the door and peeped in at him opposite to it, sitting in the chimney corner.

  5. Confidences and confessions are too often a means of evasion of justice--a laying of the case for the plaintiff before a judge without allowing the defendant to be present or to call a witness.

  6. She seldom commented on the confidences that were made to her.

  7. He's a good deal older than I," said Maria, remembering sundry confidences with the tall, lanky boy over the garden fence.

  8. She thought, with a shudder, that she was coming to make a few more confidences before George Ramsey arrived.

  9. She did not pour her confidences into her sister's ears.

  10. Maria knew that her manner had driven Lily away, but she did not feel as if she could endure hearing her confidences, and Lily's confidences had all the impetus of a mountain stream.

  11. This sort of table was invented by Frederick the Great for tete-a-tete confidences with Barbarina, the famous Italian beauty.

  12. Quoting His Highness's confidences to the Cardinal, he repeated almost word for word the War Lord's conversation with Franz, both at the Schloss and at the General Staff office.

  13. Then, after the nurse has had her say, thank her for telling you about it and ask her to leave you, because in the tender confidences between mother and son it is not proper that an outside and possibly antagonistic influence should intrude.

  14. Of all the various kinds of boys to be found at any school, which ones Bobby is destined to have as closest companions, to exchange confidences with constantly, and have set him the example, is largely a matter of luck, or accident.

  15. Lord Blair and young Helsingham were hardly possessed of ears in which to repeat the confidences of the desert; and as for Lady Muriel, he was not in a position to say whether she had received his words with real understanding or not.

  16. Then there would be some hope that the season would not be entirely barren of romance, and, when she returned to England in the spring, she would not be in the painful necessity of having to invent confidences for the ears of her girl friends.

  17. When the major issues had been discussed, confidences were exchanged about the ministers who had resigned and wobbled and withdrawn their resignations.

  18. Bit by bit, compelled by a will and nervous strength far superior to his own, Henslowe was led into abrupt and blurted confidences which surprised no one so much as himself.

  19. The vicar's confidences were the result of a fit of nervous exasperation.

  20. But such muttered confidences are eloquent of mischief when the pinch comes.

  21. Confidences had been exchanged: Tony had repeated to the envious churchwarden some of the tamer episodes of his dilettante existence; Robert had tried to cap them with his burglars and Alicia.

  22. And then his worldly old mother's confidences had added just that touch of jealousy which often sharpens love.

  23. Strange confidences are very often made to lawyers, quite as often as to doctors.

  24. But Major Guthrie, when he came to sign his will, the will for which he had sent such precise and detailed instructions a few days before, made no confidences at all.

  25. She betrayed to Delcambre the confidences of her mistress.

  26. The confidences she everywhere received put her on the track of good strokes of business, often of a nature more than equivocal, and it was she who arranged the second marriage of her brother Aristide.

  27. The opening reference is to the reply which had been made to a previous expression of his wish for some confidences as in the old time.

  28. Of course, I don't know how far Mrs. Wray enjoys the business confidences of-her husband.

  29. If Mrs. Wray is to receive your confidences I can't give you mine.

  30. The other people in the house did not disturb them, and they sat for a long time alone, exchanging the confidences which had been so long delayed; but they were none the less sweet on that account.

  31. Truly, such delightful confidences must be something one-sided, for the mildest Griselda of them all would be led as a "Martha to the Stakes" sooner than concede to her husband the unrestricted supervision of her correspondence.

  32. But I need not inflict my confidences on you, and I don't choose to see the drift of your question.

  33. There is a real solicitude in the confidences concerning William Ravenshoe upon his sudden promotion from the stable to the drawing-room of Ravenshoe Manor.

  34. He appears to have a constant anxiety about the impression he is making, and his comments and confidences certainly become distasteful.

  35. Warner had been shocked by his theological irregularities; but they were still friends, and now Thyrsis sought a chance to exchange confidences with him.

  36. Being in an "interesting condition," Corydon was entitled to the confidences of the married women acquaintances of the family.

  37. Other lads exchanged confidences in forbidden things, they broke down the barriers and tore away the veils; but Thyrsis had never breathed a word about matters of sex to any living creature.

  38. He was extremely curious to know what had brought Lady Wantley to town, what could be the matter concerning which she had evidently come to consult him; but he was too experienced a confessor to hasten confidences by a word.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "confidences" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.