I think fit to tell thee these following truths; that I did not undertake to write, or to publish this discourse of fish and fishing, to please my self, and that I wish it may not displease others; for, I have confest there are many defects in it. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It was too true; the sword, after being kicked out three or four times from its uncomfortable post between his legs, had returned unconquered; and the hilt getting a little too far back by reason of the too great length of the belt, the weapon took up its post triumphantly behind, standing out point in air, a tail confest, amid the tittering of the ostlers, and the cheers of the sailors. ❋ Unknown (2007)
"Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest,/Some are, and must be, greater than the rest," wrote the 18th-century satirist Alexander Pope. ❋ Unknown (2007)
There was no use now denying the fact of his arrest, and so he confest it at onst: but he made a cock-and-bull story of treachery of a friend, infimous fodgery, and heaven knows what. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Well, will it be believed that they call the upper town the Hot Veal, and the other the Base Veal, which is on the contry, genrally good in France, though the beaf, it must be confest, is excrabble. ❋ Unknown (2006)
But he was a respecktabble, fine-looking old nobleman; and though it must be confest, 1/2 drunk when we fust made our appearance in the salong, yet by no means moor so than a reel noblemin ought to be. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The lovely stranger stands confest A maid in all her charms. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Rougher Language growing betweene them, of his avouching, and her as stout denying, with defending her cause over-weakely, against the manifest proofes both of eye and eare: at last she fell on her knees before him, weeping incessantly, and no excuses now availing, she confest her long acquaintance with Spinelloccio, and most humbly entreated him to forgive her. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Holy Father, I alwayes used (as a common custome) to bee confessed once (at the least) every weeke, albeit sometimes much more often; but true it is, that being falne into this sicknesse, now eight daies since I have not beene confest, so violent hath bene the extremity of my weaknesse. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The Maid had fear and hate confest, And cursed the hand which then She prest. ❋ Unknown (2004)
“So far what I confest,” said she, “was true, that these hands conveyed the infant to your bed; conveyed it thither at the command of its mother; at her commands I afterwards owned it, and thought myself, by her generosity, nobly rewarded, both for my secrecy and my shame.” ❋ Unknown (2004)
He then insisted much on the security given him by Nightingale of a fair pretence for breaking off, if, contrary to their expectations, her ladyship should have accepted his offer; but confest that he had been guilty of a great indiscretion to put such a letter as that into her power, ❋ Unknown (2004)
“I know your reason,” said Allworthy “and shall rejoice as much as you to find it otherwise; yet you must remember, you yourself confest it before me.” ❋ Unknown (2004)
See Husband, heere is hansome behaviour, of an holy faire-seeming, and Saint-like woman, to whom I durst have confest my sinnes, I conceived such a religious perswasion of her lives integrety, free from the least scruple of taxation. ❋ Unknown (2004)
This loss, however great, he bore like a man of sense and constancy, though it must be confest he would often talk a little whimsically on this head; for he sometimes said he looked on himself as still married, and considered his wife as only gone a little before him, ❋ Unknown (2004)
Thou art the same Friar that confest me, and lieth every night with me, and so often as thou sentst thy yong Novice or Clearke to me, as often did I truly returne thee word, when the same Fryar lay with me. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Hence, he said, he had been induced falsely to confess himself guilty, though he was innocent; and that he believed he should have confest a murder from the same motive. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Cannons mouthes doth flame, And more then any, our dread Knight oppresst: Much hurt shee did, many shee wounded lame, And _Valurs_ selfe, her valiant acts confest. ❋ Unknown (2003)
_ Well, this confest, how came you by these Wounds? ❋ Henry Nevil Payne (N/A)
The prudent Eumolpus, as a thing so surprizingly new, began to be thoughtful, and confest that way to riches did not displease him. ❋ 20-66 Petronius Arbiter (N/A)
[my room] was always “confested” with my [annoying ass] [roommate] ❋ Lexyjazz!2 (2020)
