secretness
Example Sentences
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He contributed to the quiet he wished for by offering no violence, no contention, and to do this he had to retire into secretness, since there is some violence in everyone.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
She was accompanied by her husband, a young Chinese of high birth, who manifested no more signs of activity to an outward world than a baffling secretness.
From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Gayle Porter Hoskins
The woman became more anxious to know; the secretness of the thing, and the silence of the youth, did but inflame her curiosity.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
The face of the god shone through the face of the old man, and filled with awe, it was so full of secretness.
From AE in the Irish Theosophist by George William Russell
I marvel greatly thou dost me so atwite Of the doubt, that thou hast of my secretness: As secret as thyself I shall be doubtless.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt
