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Example sentences for "could confide"

  • That great officer died in January at Versailles, in the sixty-seventh year of his age; and Louis lamented his death the more deeply, as he had not another general left in whose understanding he could confide.

  • Such was the pretext under which this consummate general concealed another plan, which was communicated to a few only in whose discretion he could confide.

  • Having intrusted the care of his dominions to persons in whom he could confide, he now disguised himself, and travelled as one of their retinue.

  • You are the first one in whom I have ever felt that I could confide, the first whom I wished to be my friend.

  • Maroney, after committing the robbery, had, in exact accordance with my theory, found that he needed some one in whom he could confide, and with whom he could ease his overburdened mind by disclosing the facts of the robbery.

  • I could confide to a stranger a suspicion roused in me by the Trial which I have been thus far afraid to mention even in these pages!

  • I could confide in Benjamin as I could confide in no one else.

  • His trouble did not appear to be one that he could confide--at present, at least.

  • Indeed, on scanning mentally the list of my acquaintance, I found that there was not one in whom I could confide.

  • No, thank you," said I, abstractedly, and feeling that Stella was not the person to whom I could confide my woe.

  • At this place he appointed persons in whom he could confide to the offices of judges and magistrates, and dispatched intelligence of the success of his arms over the whole kingdom of Peru.

  • He appointed the licentiates Carvajal and Cepeda to be captains of cavalry, as persons in whose attachment he could confide, considering the weighty obligations they had received from him.

  • De Robles accordingly, taking all his own horses and attendants and those belonging to Maldonado, took along with him to Lima all the soldiers of his company in whom he could confide.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    could answer; could bring; could call; could carry; could catch; could climb; could come; could easily; could feel; could just; could learn; could live; could mean; could name; could not have told; could perceive; could procure; could ride; could still; could summon; could tell; could walk; could write; near relative; permit the; three states