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

And as he stood and looked at them the mask of age and secretness vanished.

From Imaginations and Reveries by Russell, George William

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 Hoskins, Gayle Porter

Straightway they went into the forest in all quiet and secretness, and surrounded the whole wood, for they had folk in plenty, who bore axes and staves, and some their naked swords.

From Tales from the Old French 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 Russell, George William