unbosoming

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Oftentimes, while Don Leandro was unbosoming himself, the confessor heaved deep sighs and made the confessional creak as though his chair pinched him.

From Maximina by Palacio Valdés, Armando

There—there—there," cried Riccabocca, pushing back his chair to the farther end of the room—"that comes of unbosoming one's self!

From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various

But I am hurried sometimes beyond the sense of pain, when unbosoming myself to friends who harmonize with me in principle.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

Deborah had never risen so much above her ordinary self, in his eyes, as while she was thus unbosoming a secret she had kept for years.

From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Cooper, Thomas

Her bitterest foe would hardly dare charge upon Zion such iniquity as the friendly unbosoming in these pages reveals.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 by Various