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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

Now the continualness, the secretness, yet the always present domesticness of our love; how may we best compass that, without jeopardizing the ever-sacred memory I hinted of?

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

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 Hazlitt, William Carew

He has tales of a thousand incarnations hidden away in secretness.

From AE in the Irish Theosophist by Russell, George William

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




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