Word: confess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife Fayne: in an instant he had killed Michael. Next instant he regretted it: and if quick-witted Fayne had not made it seem an accident, the murder had been out. To keep the truth from killing his mother, and to save Lance. Fayne persuaded him not to confess what he had done. But his atonement was too much for him: she saw him going slowly mad before her eyes. When at last he threw himself over a cliff Fayne was not surprised, would not let herself follow him because she was growing big with his child...
Biographers, plying their little hatchets, would be the first to confess that this affectionate title possessed no small degree of accuracy. How, for example, is one to explain succinctly the character of a man who would in one moment defy a whole city, as Jackson did when he placed New Orleans under martial law, and who would in the next submit meekly to the sentence of Judge Dominick Ball, one of the major victims of that defiance? How is one to harmonize the picture of the man who caused the imprisonment of a Spanish commissioner in the common goal, with...
There is no need to go on. This is the making of a crusader. But when the Vagabond had finished it he was reconciled to the fate of "Munsey's" and willing to confess that the moral which once accompanied every lurid fable had slipped his memory. So, conscious of the error of his ways, he abandons his golden dream, his plans for the future of the Harvard Critic, and return to "Fanny Hill," the only safe resort of those in search of literary excitement...
When people began telephoning its Manhattan office, America's staff was forced to confess that the "Harmonians" do not exist. "The Pilgrim" invented them...
Biographers, plying their little hatchets, would be the first to confess that this affectionate title possessed no small degree of accuracy. How for example, is one to explain succinctly the character of a man who would in one moment defy a whole city, as Jackson did when he placed New Orleans under martial law, and who would in the next submit meekly to the sentence of Judge Dominick Hall, one of the major victims of that defiance? How is one to harmonize the picture of the man who caused the imprisonment of the Spanish commissioner in the common goal with...