I hope you'll be able to keep the surprise part of it a secret to the very last moment.
This, of course, was the secret of Mr. Black's affection for Bettie.
I should keep it the darkest kind of secret until the very last moment, if I were you.
But innermost, Beyond the richness of those hundred halls, A secret chamber lurked, where skill had spent All lovely fantasies to lull the mind.
But when the fourth watch came the secret came Of Sorrow, which with evil mars the law, As damp and dross hold back the goldsmith's fire.
I would pour my blood if it could stay Thy tears and win the secret of that curse Which makes sweet love our anguish, and which drives O'er flowers and pastures to the sacrifice As these dumb beasts are driven--men their lords.
He peered in; it was evidently a secret vault--some hiding place of the old bank unknown in newer times.
How can civilization persist in letting one person or a group of persons, by secret inherent power, determine what goods shall be made--whether bread or champagne, overcoats or silk socks?
It has its literature, it has its secret propaganda and above all--it pays!
The secret of Bentham's immense influence in England during the past thirty years is his success in placing such an object before the country.
Simple statements of simple facts Secrecy is strength Secret spring of certainty She experienced the worst: She could not cry!
And yet, in his inner tissue, there was something of the old founder of his family, a secret tenacity of soul, a dread of showing his feelings, a determination not to know when he was beaten.
The men were in the subterranean estufas, dressing their bodies and performing those secret rites which no white man is ever permitted to witness.
But in secret he told his companions the truth, and it was decided to leave the Pueblo of Taos early the next morning.
I felt secret grief and anguish, and a thought which I still veiled, and I did not dare to lift the veil, for beneath it I should find a terrible doubt.
She became a secret police agent, and soon was one of their most valuable members.
And that went on for three weeks without any explanation, without anything explaining that strange conduct to me, the secret of which I suspected, however.
The marquis is married to a charming Parisian woman, and was any married man, who loved his wife, ever known to keep a secret from her?
They knew that he was a good narrator, and it was no secret that his life had been an adventurous one, so they drew closer to him, and listened religiously.
She was still pretty, for she was well preserved in her tranquil existence, like some winter fruit in a closed cupboard; but she was agitated and devoured by her secret ardor.
What secret forces had brought their grief in contact?
I am speaking of women who are really women, who are endowed with that triple-bottomed disposition, which appears to be reasonable and cold on the surface, but whose three secret compartments are filled.
If Raoul retained a single doubt on the subject, it would have vanished at the secret harmony of tastes and connection of the mind with the ordinary objects of life.
D'Artagnan increased the sharpness of his penetrating gaze, which no secret was capable of resisting.
The secret might be Louis's return during the night; it could not be doubted any longer La Valliere had been informed of his intended return, and that was the reason for her delight at having to remain behind at the Palais Royal.
Sire, I shall do my utmost that the secretdies in the breast of the man who possesses it!
In the first place, as a beginning, you will readily suppose that I have not been absurd enough to lock up my secret, or your secret rather, in my own breast.
That we will think about," said Porthos; "the secret will not go far, in fact.
Are you not a member of a secret society, my dear M.
To keep such a secret as that, is to keep a burning coal in one's breeches-pocket, and trust that it may not burn the stuff.
The General, and the Combined Chiefs made a hurried and secret trip to Aberdeen the day after his return.
Rumors of a terrible secret weapon were being bruited about--not only in hush-hush military circles but in the public prints as well.
They mounted their white mules and rode over the mountains into France, by a secret way long settled upon and laid with friendly relays of food and equipage.
To the secretsatisfaction of all the Sergeant did not resume his duties in the camp of Cabrera.
Cardono, however, made nosecret that he was of the blood of Egypt, and set down to this fact all that he had been able to accomplish.
And this is the secret of all things new and old, of Adam and Eva his wife, of Alpha and Omega, of the mystic OM, of the joined serpent, of the Somewhat which links us to the Someone.
Besides which, the chests of valuables and papers, the casks of fine liquors and smuggled cigars proved that this was intended for a secret wall chamber in which to conceal the valuables of the house in case of alarm.
This is either treachery or the enemy have gained admission by some secret passage!
Moreover, it was an open secretthat a few months after the death of her husband Fernando, Cristina had married Munoz, one of the handsomest officers of her bodyguard.
I am forbidden to reveal to any save General Cabrera alone my secret instructions!
Rollo; "for me, my mission is a secret one, but I have no instructions against listening.
At last he stood in the great hall of audience, his plain well-worn coat and knee-breeches the secret scorn of every courtier.
But these secret embassies in the hands of foreigners--what good can come of them?
Not but what Luis must all the same have set him on, for he alone knew of the secretway of retreat.
There are barriers which he may not pass, secret treasures that he may not see, dreams that he may not guess.
The hero is usually "tall and dark, with a melancholy cast of countenance," and there are fascinating hints of some secret sorrow.
Some women are mature cynics at twenty, while a grey-haired matron of fifty seems to have found the secret of perennial youth.
Then the exclusive bit of news is rapidly syndicated, and by gentle degrees, the secret is diffused through the community.
It is a common failing to expect another person to keep a secret which we have just proved is beyond our own capability.
Still, the majority of men are dark and it is said they do not marry as readily as of yore--is this the secret of the widespread havoc made by peroxide of hydrogen?
In her secret heart, woman holds her unchanging ideal of her own possible perfection.
When me and Bill Bassett was left alone I did a little sleight-of-mind turn in my head with a trade secret at the end of it.
It seems to be all right,' says the Secret Service.
We finally selected an upright slice of topography covered with bushes and trees that you could only reach by a secret path that we cut out up the side of it.
If she had only gone to him at once and shared her secret with him when May had confessed her marriage, and told her about the little child, how easy all this would have been now!
Now there was another--a secret so fraught with future trouble that she hardly dared dwell upon all that she had heard.
Do you think I've kept this a secret for more than two years for them to be told?
Mr Linnell, I have something to say to you, and when that is said, I shall keep my distance again, and it will be a secret between us.
Love, for her, was dead; no man could call her wife with such a secret as she held in her breast, and as she thought on, her misery seemed greater than she could bear.
But that would be showing Major Rockley that she was afraid of him, and this she wished to keep a secret in her own breast.
It concerns you as much as it does me, and you shall be the judge as to whether the secret shall be kept.
Then they parted, and she went to her room, opened the window, and sat with her face among the flowers, watching the sea and thinking of some one whom she had insecret seen pass by there at night.
Had they done so, I feel certain I should have thrown off the mask and avowed myself to be that hateful thing, a disguised and secret enemy.
I ran my hand over the boarding, and soon encountered what would have seemed to any one unacquainted with the secret merely an ill-driven nail.
It is provoking that the secret of rendering man perfect in wisdom, power, virtue, and happiness, should die with me.
The secret which you would fain keep, as soon as you go abroad, lo!
A popular player,--nobody suspected he was the poet of the human race; and the secret was kept as faithfully from poets and intellectual men, as from courtiers and frivolous people.
Hence it is that he does not favor a tyrant: it is not his design to instruct a tyrant, but to detect his secret attempts, and expose him naked and conspicuous to the poor people.
In a letter to his old school-master, he said, "I have enjoyed much of life, as I was enabled to discover the secret of this somewhat early.
I have a secret pride--I fancy it will be most truly termed--which impels me to mix with my distress strange snatches of mirth which have no mirth in them.
He wept so much in secret that his eyes became impaired, and he trembled for the total loss of sight.
That the author of Auld Robin Gray kept the authorship of her immortal ballad a secret for fifty years.
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Miss Baker asked this question when she perceived that Mrs Stumfold was deep in some secret conference with Mr Startup.
She had no wish to keep anything secret from her cousin, but she did not know how to describe the scene which had just taken place, or how to acknowledge that the man had come there to ask her to marry him.
There are many reasons which operate upon young ladies in such a condition to keep their secret even from their nearest relatives.
We found it necessary to impress on his mind the necessity of keeping secret from the whites the fact of our presence in the country.
Provisions of a sort I had plenty, but for water I must depend on the secret oasis, which I estimated to be not more than four miles distant.
His presence at the preparation of the secret perfume did not surprise me, for a belief in the efficacy of magical operations prevailed, as I was aware, even among the more cultured Moslems.
I saw now that what with palms and the natural rise of the land back from the Nile, the wonderful palace, with its terraces and gleaming domes, must actually be invisible from all points; a more secret locality one could not well imagine.
That the secret of the pyramid was a Pharaoh's ring I did not learn until later; but now it is made manifest that the thing of power is the death-ring of Sneferu.
Greed spoke to him, however, and he revealed the secret to a certain Englishman, called Bishop, contracting to aid him in recovering the ring.
The camel knows thesecret name of Allah--and that name is Rest.
These hands have never touched it; yet the secret of Ismail is my secret.
As she was the repository of many a dangerous secret the inconvenience of her habit was serious.
In the bathroom a trap-door, covered by a rug, opened on to a secret staircase leading down to the cellar, and a similar staircase connected the cellar with the laboratory.
He had jealously guarded his secret and his treasure, and although his sleep was frequently disturbed by startling visions of robbery and murder, not one of the many who surrounded him suspected for an instant the wealth that he possessed.
It must find a voice; and whether it be to the empty air in fitful dreamings, or into the ears of a sympathetic friend--he must relieve himself of the terrible secret which is bearing him down.
He still appeared doubtful of communicating the promisedsecret of the hiding-place of the old man's money to his companion.
The guilty secret which he had been keeping so long in his heart must find utterance--it had become heavy to bear.
I could tell you a secret that would open your eyes, but as long as you are here I can do you no good, and you cannot help me.
He was denounced on the one hand as a trickster, and on the other as a man who must be guilty of some terrible secret sin, else he would not thus be vexed.
Ah," was Swedenborg's rejoinder; "but it has a secret drawer of which you know nothing.
Whatever his secret sentiments, he lost no time in endeavoring to stamp the imprint of his vigorous personality on Epworth.
It is by these he should be judged; it is in these, not in his hallucinations nor in his telepathic exhibitions, that lies the secret of the commanding, if not always recognized, influence he has exercised on the thought of posterity.
In Elizabeth's reign he was frequently consulted by the highest ministers of the crown with regard to affairs of State, and was the confidant of the queen herself, who more than once employed him on secret missions.
Many difficulties lie in their path, but after innumerable adventures, and a life-and-death struggle with the Arctic weather of that wild region, they find the secret gold mines for which they have searched.
Naturally he sides with the Protestants, distinguishes himself in various battles, and receives rapid promotion for the zeal and daring with which he carries out several secret missions.
Helen Grant received from her grandfather on his death-bed a secret message.
Thorndyke Manor is an old house near the mouth of the Thames which is convenient, on account of its secret vaults and situation, as the basis of operation in a Jacobite conspiracy.
One of the most curious things about London is the way in which, despite its gloom, it inspires and stimulates the poet's thought, "moulding the secret gold.
The old masters are long ago buried, and they have carried their secret to the grave.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "secret" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
