confessed

Percival confessed to his mother that night that he had wronged Uncle Peter.

He confessed to me that he was apt to go astray when intent on rhyme.

She was studying her material; and it must be confessed that they startled her not a little.

What would the knight have said had he confessed to his love for the Lady Maude?

It must be confessed (he adds drily) that in England this is a lifelong disqualification.

When Christine rose to leave, she confessed her failure frankly.

Soup in these parts, it must be confessed, is not very good.

"Peter, I have done something perfectly awful," she confessed.

She will tell me how she has met them at Kaffeeklatsches, and how they confessed that they didn't cook!

"Don't even know her name or nationality," he confessed to himself after a while.