Arriere Pensee

And I have never trusted the arriere-pensee of King Yeochee and Pallol One-Eye. ❋ May, Julian, 1931- (1981)

But are we to suppose that suddenly, after a long widowhood, Agrippina put forth so strange a proposal without any arriere-pensee whatever? ❋ Ferrero, Guglielmo, 1871-1942 (1911)

Though the Spanish Jews did not yet cultivate the allegoric and mystic exegesis, their philosophic sense was rather refined and they did not always approach the study of the Bible without seeking something not clearly expressed in the text, without arriere-pensee so to speak. ❋ Liber, Maurice (1906)

This question would doubtless have elicited a categorical reply; but somehow, the consciousness of an arriere-pensee made me shrink from putting such ❋ Julian Hawthorne (1890)

At any rate I kept on my guard, so that Miss Tita should not have occasion again to ask me if I had an arriere-pensee. ❋ Unknown (1888)

But it had done no more than impress her; for though in delivering the lines he had so fixed his look upon her as to suggest, to any maiden practised in the game of the eyes, a present significance in the words, the idea of any such arriere-pensee had by no means commended itself to her soul. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)

Having told you this, I must tell you, too, Aunt Janet, lest you should be made anxious by the _arriere-pensee_ of all these warlike measures of defence, that I always sleep at night with one of these iron screens across the window. ❋ Bram Stoker (1879)

Dick meant nothing by this speech more than his words implied: he was far too good-natured for an _arriere-pensee_. ❋ Rosa Nouchette Carey (1874)

A savage will not assist in packing them, for he fears their heels: the Swiss say mules have always an arriere-pensee. ❋ Francis Galton (1866)

That the dinner was merely hospitality to a refugee landed upon our shores in distress; and that my presidency would take away any suspicion that there was the slightest _arriere-pensee_ in the matter. ❋ Unknown (1860)

On being questioned, Marguerite admitted everything to the duke, and advised him, without arriere-pensee, to concern himself with her no longer, for she felt incapable of carrying out what she had undertaken, and she did not wish to go on accepting benefits from a man whom she was deceiving. ❋ Alexandre Dumas Fils (1859)

'She would be up to looking through every speech that a young man made her for the arriere-pensee of a compliment. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)