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  • "They weren't clandestine," Anna whispered back.†   (source)
  • He could only hope that Clara and his father-in-law had seen nothing of his clandestine activities.†   (source)
  • The attached seminary has a well-documented history of unorthodoxy and was once the clandestine meeting hall for numerous secret societies.†   (source)
  • More than once, Laila had wondered what the Taliban would do about Kaka Zaman's clandestine lessons if they found out.†   (source)
  • I showed Nathan the next morning, the two of us stooping furtively over our coffees in the kitchen as if we were doing something properly clandestine.†   (source)
  • Kate would have loved to sneak down to the culvert again, but this was not a clandestine operation.†   (source)
  • If even the most clandestine love affair yearns for an audience, then of course I was theirs.†   (source)
  • Gladly partook of any clandestine eating on the part of my mother.†   (source)
  • After years of clandestine relationships, it felt refreshing to court in a fishbowl, to have the support of her parents from the very start, the inevitability of an unquestioned future, of marriage, drawing them along.†   (source)
  • We somehow had to get out into those infamous mountain passes and put a stop to this clandestine infiltration of faceless tribal warriors making their way across the border, doggedly, silently, prepared to fight at the drop of a turban.†   (source)
  • Let's face it, these two clandestine lovers are hardly babes in the woods.†   (source)
  • I tried to imply clandestine dealings with a high occupation official.†   (source)
  • Had her eyes filled with tears when she realized that Misery and Geoffrey, far from having a clandestine affair behind the back of the man they both loved, were giving him the greatest gift they could , a child he would believe to be his own?†   (source)
  • Anyway, Sarah Byrnes and I had decided to lay off Dale Thornton for a while—at least until our wounds healed—and concentrate on an exposé about Mautz's two-headed son, the outcome of his clandestine sexual foray with a group of particularly brutal aliens one night several years back when he was wigged out on cocaine.†   (source)
  • She was not a keeper of secrets, at least not until her death fears drove her into a frenzy of clandestine research and erotic deception.†   (source)
  • One day the twins returned from a clandestine trip to the river (which had excluded Sophie Mol), and found her in the garden in tears, perched on the highest point of Baby Kochamma's Herb Curl, "Being Lonely," as she put it.†   (source)
  • Dueling could also be profitable in a small way, as there was a bit of clandestine betting.†   (source)
  • Moreover, a clandestine life shared with a man who was never completely hers, and in which they often knew the sudden explosion of happiness, did not seem to her a condition to be despised.†   (source)
  • It was against the rules for normal people —human people like me and Charlie — to know about the clandestine world full of myths and monsters that existed secretly around us.†   (source)
  • Therefore, the success of the ploy depended upon Saphira ferrying the apparition through the camp and out of sight as quickly as possible, and upon the hope that Eragon's reputation was so formidable, it would discourage clandestine observers from attempting to glean information about the Varden from his consciousness, for fear of his vengeance.†   (source)
  • I thought back to all of the clandestine conversations in Farsi between Moody and Mammal when Mammal was living with us in Michigan.†   (source)
  • I still had a number of clandestine meetings in the city and townships that evening.†   (source)
  • It's possible that HIV prevalence among them rose, although it's impossible to be sure because there is no way to test girls in clandestine brothels.†   (source)
  • Clandestine.†   (source)
  • He tallied up all the years he had loved her clandestinely and could not recall a moment of his life when she had not been present—at least in his thoughts.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Scheisskopf's preparations were elaborate and clandestine.†   (source)
  • Since any Czechs they saw coming or going were clearly agents in the service of the Russians, he and his friends trailed them, traced the number plates of their cars, and passed on the information to the pro-Dubcek clandestine radio and television broadcasters, who then warned the public.†   (source)
  • From the very best candidates, he had taken those very few who, after considerable clandestine examination, appeared both accessible and worthy of his standards.†   (source)
  • Its own clandestine visit from the Lord of the Radch.†   (source)
  • What supplies there were came mainly by clandestine shipments from Europe to New York and Philadelphia by way of the Dutch island St. Eustatius in the Caribbean.†   (source)
  • Over the years, with his facile mastery of languages and the expertise that came with survival, he had become the Agency's point man in clandestine operations, its primary scout and often the on-scene strategist for covert activities.†   (source)
  • Although Celia dabbles in santería's harmless superstitions, she cannot bring herself to trust the clandestine rites of the African magic.†   (source)
  • She was certain that it had been installed shortly before she checked into the hotel—by the gunman and his companion acting either clandestinely or with the assistance of a hotel engineer.†   (source)
  • There is Judith Campbell, the mistress who serves as Kennedy's clandestine connection to Chicago Mafia kingpin Sam Giancana—and who complains that JFK is less tender as a lover since becoming president.†   (source)
  • Cadets become clandestine but brilliantly imaginative masturbators of a very high order.†   (source)
  • For a brief period after 9/11, Carter's kingdom had been known as the National Clandestine Service.†   (source)
  • I have to meet tomorrow night, clandestinely, with the Glatun.†   (source)
  • Standing not for the agency you think, but for a clandestine Mexican outfit known as the Conjuracion de los Insurgentes Anarquistas, traceable back to the time of the Flores Magon brothers and later briefly allied with Zapata.†   (source)
  • Most of the remaining 35,000—clandestine denizens of the so-called interghetto—dwelt in despair amid the ruins like hunted animals.†   (source)
  • Seventh and finally: I call upon Chairman Khrushchev to halt and eliminate this clandestine, reckless and provocative threat to world peace and to stable relations between our two nations.†   (source)
  • What's a clandestine radio when there are already clandestine Jews and clandestine money?   (source)
    clandestine = secret or hidden
  • we've extracted them all from the clandestine archives,   (source)
    clandestine = hidden
  • a clandestine interview in the back kitchen   (source)
  • A sizable area had been walled off for his clandestine practices.†   (source)
  • No one else is there, which gives him a sensation of clandestine pleasure.†   (source)
  • In the evenings we held a clandestine prayer meeting for as many as could crowd around our bunk.†   (source)
  • Smith asked Marcela to see what she could do about Seabiscuit's clandestine munching.†   (source)
  • But they were wily and they had a clandestine assistant.†   (source)
  • But "clandestine" station managed to get "truth" to Terra.†   (source)
  • They are used to living in a clandestine manner, probably under the shah as well as the ayatollah.†   (source)
  • He arrived only hours ago and demands a clandestine meeting only hours from now.†   (source)
  • She had clandestine Washington just the way she wanted it.†   (source)
  • 'Good God!' cried the longstanding ambassador of the State Department's clandestine activities.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, feeling guilty about her clandestine visit, she had told Hormoz.†   (source)
  • Alice must certainly have wondered about my clandestine activities.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, Moody and Mammal's clandestine late-night conversations took on a far more ominous aspect.†   (source)
  • Banking section; supervision of agents' salaries, overseas payments for clandestine purposes.†   (source)
  • There was already a substantial underground facility here, developed over centuries to be either a clandestine refuge for government leaders in time of war or a last resort for humanity if life above became unlivable.†   (source)
  • I arranged clandestine rendezvous and slipped away from home, and, of course, someone would inform my father that I'd been spotted on the streets somewhere.†   (source)
  • For security's sake, it was verbally transferred to each new rising sénéchal at a clandestine ceremony.†   (source)
  • Mama didn't tell me any of this information; I knew it from a clandestine, hasty, partial read of the letter Madaline had sent Mama informing her of her intent to visit.†   (source)
  • "I can't believe that you have been having clandestine conversations with Sofia," the Count said in a hushed voice, though no one else was about.†   (source)
  • In her day she had enjoyed a legendary career as a clandestine courtesan who deserved her nom de guerre, Our Lady of Everybody.†   (source)
  • They also uncovered his links to a clandestine international enterprise whose most profitable business at the end of the last century had been the illegal smuggling of Chinese from Panama.†   (source)
  • Although she was as free as he was, and perhaps would not have been opposed to making their relationship public, from the very first Florentino Ariza considered it a clandestine adventure.†   (source)
  • The police had discovered that the elderly couple beaten to death were clandestine lovers who had taken their vacations together for forty years, but who each had a stable and happy marriage as well as very large families.†   (source)
  • Silently, clandestinely.†   (source)
  • Booth plans to escape to Mexico after shooting Lincoln and then perhaps sail to Spain for a clandestine visit with Lucy if all goes well.†   (source)
  • And among these secrets were the names of the experts in clandestine operations who had come down to question him so intensely in Virginia.†   (source)
  • The dauntless grandmother, who had reached a hundred years of age managing a small, clandestine brothel, did not trust therapeutic superstitions, so she turned the matter over to her cards.†   (source)
  • With no means for producing arms or gunpowder, the colonies were dependent on clandestine shipments from Europe by way of the Caribbean, and particularly the tiny Dutch island of St. Eustatius.†   (source)
  • It was no fluke: in another clandestine workout not long after, the colt would tie a thirty-year-old world record for seven eighths of a mile, running it in 1:22.†   (source)
  • After leaving university, Clarkson undertook enormous risks to move clandestinely through ports in Liverpool and Bristol where slaving ships docked, to talk to seamen and to gather evidence about the trade.†   (source)
  • Because of the clandestine nature of these exchanges, information would come slowly in bits and pieces.†   (source)
  • Oh God, he's dead," she sobbed, leaning over the body of the old man who had filled her childhood with stories and protected her clandestine love affair.†   (source)
  • It was a clandestine outgrowth of the search-and-destroy concept, designed to function behind enemy lines during the Vietnam war.†   (source)
  • And finally, I call upon Chairman Khrushchev to halt and eliminate this clandestine, reckless and provocative threat to world peace and stable relations between our two nations.†   (source)
  • 'I don't buy eggs in Malta,' he confessed, with an air of slight and clandestine amusement that was the only departure from industrious sobriety Yossarian had ever seen him make.†   (source)
  • "Then we began to intercept reports from a certain clandestine police agency…reports that said you were alive and active in the L.A. area, that it involved families who'd lost loved ones on Flight 353.†   (source)
  • According to passport records, she had spent the month of August in Greece, though French security and intelligence officials now suspected she had traveled clandestinely to Syria for training.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, he fought clandestinely, faithful to his theory that the violence of the rich must be met by the violence of the people.†   (source)
  • Perhaps still better to put it out over a clandestine beam attributed to the Terran scientists still with us while our official channels display the classic stigmata of tight censorship.†   (source)
  • We in the clandestine services can't always explain things," Alex said, wincing as he spoke the ridiculous words.†   (source)
  • We formed a clandestine communications committee, composed of Kathy, Mac Maharaj, Laloo Chiba, and several others, and their job was to organize all such practices.†   (source)
  • Outside the hotel, the bright red Impala was parked in the surface lot, watched over clandestinely by the agents of the FBI's Critical Incident Response Group.†   (source)
  • All the next evening, people kept popping up at him out of the darkness to ask him how he was doing, appealing to him for confidential information with weary, troubled faces on the basis of some morbid and clandestine kinship he had not guessed existed.†   (source)
  • Congressman Efrem Walters, out of the hills of Tennessee by way of the Yale Law Review, was not to be dismissed with facile circumlocution that dealt with the esoterica of clandestine manipulations.†   (source)
  • If they weren't strictly employees of Teknologik, they had some measure of federal power behind them, but they hadn't shouted FBI or DEA or ATF when they had burst out of the night, so they were probably operatives with a clandestine agency paid for out of those many billions of dollars that the government dispensed off the accounting books, from the infamous Black Budget.†   (source)
  • Webb fled to Saigon, consumed with rage, and, ironically, through the efforts of the CIA officer named Conklin, who years later tried to kill him, joined a clandestine operations outfit called Medusa.†   (source)
  • Forthirty years, the ANC had functioned clandestinely in South Africa; those habits and techniques were deeply ingrained.†   (source)
  • He had been in scrambler-communication with a dozen branches of clandestine operations-in Washington and overseas-trying to undo the insanity of the past twenty-four hours.†   (source)
  • Then he'll proclaim to the clandestine departments of all governments that he has won, that he's the padrone, the maestro.†   (source)
  • He spent time with Mike on plans and analysis (odds shortened to one in five during September '76), time with Stu and Sheenie Sheehan on propaganda, controlling official news to Earthside, very different "news" that went via "clandestine" radio, and reslanting news that came up from Earthside.†   (source)
  • The limousine pulled up to the curb in front of the Carlyle Hotel, once the Kennedy family's favored New York City address, now the temporary clandestine favorite of the Soviets.†   (source)
  • The secretary of state walked angrily into the office of the director of Consular Operations, the department's section dealing with clandestine activities.†   (source)
  • In the old days there were no television cameras, and most ANC press conferences were conducted clandestinely.†   (source)
  • But because of the long-standing arms embargo, America could support Iran only in a clandestine manner.†   (source)
  • Only my hominess remained, aggravated by Sophie next to me in her white Lastex bathing suit and the total seclusion of our sandy nook, the clandestine nature of which made me a little feverish.†   (source)
  • …missiles--in an area well known to have a special and historical relationship to the United States and the nations of the Western Hemisphere, in violation of Soviet assurances, and in defiance of American and hemispheric policy--this sudden, clandestine decision to station strategic weapons for the first time outside of Soviet soil--is a deliberately provocative and unjustified change in the status quo which cannot be accepted by this country, if our courage and our commitments are…†   (source)
  • Van de Velde and Marie Stopes) I had clandestinely studied at home a few years before, I let Leslie romp astride me until I was smothered by her breasts, half drowned in the dark torrent of her hair.†   (source)
  • You might as well have asked a jockey to become a betting clerk as expect Leamas to abandon operational life for the tendentious theorizing and clandestine self-interest of Whitehall.†   (source)
  • He suggested to Rieux that he should avail himself of this clandestine channel, and Rieux agreed to do so.†   (source)
  • You say you were Mrs de Winter's prospective husband, and that you held clandestine meetings with her in that cottage on the beach.†   (source)
  • There were also whispered stories of a terrible book, a compendium of all the heresies, of which Goldstein was the author and which circulated clandestinely here and there.†   (source)
  • As a result, by that curious impalpable advertisement which exists among easy women, Dixieland became known to them— they floated casually in—the semi-public, clandestine prostitutes of a tourist town.†   (source)
  • Bad writers, and especially scientific, political and sociological writers, are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones, and unnecessary words like EXPEDITE, AMELIORATE, PREDICT, EXTRANEOUS, DERACINATED, CLANDESTINE, SUB-AQUEOUS and hundreds of others constantly gain ground from their Anglo-Saxon opposite numbers.†   (source)
  • Bigger's eyes skimmed the words: "clandestine meetings offered opportunities for abduction," "police asked not to interfere in case," "anxious family trying to contact kidnappers"" and: It was conjectured that perhaps the family had information to the effect that Erlone knew of the whereabouts of Miss Dalton, and certain police officials assigned that as the motive behind the family's request for the radical's release.†   (source)
  • And to think he was making a clandestine appointment with her.†   (source)
  • And since she was still moved to meet Clyde clandestinely this as she now saw was important.†   (source)
  • The necessary consequence is a great number of transient and clandestine connections.†   (source)
  • If it had been Sid, she would have had no misgivings to alloy her delight; but since it was Tom, she watched the bottle clandestinely.†   (source)
  • They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine.†   (source)
  • Why, all of Dorf and Platz, too, knew the nature of his relationship with Frau Wurmbrandt from Vienna, the general consul's wife—one could hardly call it clandestine anymore.†   (source)
  • It was not an Opera night, and no one was giving a party, so that Beaufort's outing was undoubtedly of a clandestine nature.†   (source)
  • That opening of the door which I had heard after I had returned to my room might mean that he had gone out to keep some clandestine appointment.†   (source)
  • But from what he had that afternoon observed in the man referred to, the suspicion of something clandestine going on had advanced to a point less removed from certainty.†   (source)
  • If he could come to some understanding with her, perhaps she would meet him in some clandestine way and thus obviate all possibility of criticism.†   (source)
  • After a further consideration of a few days he did act, and on the day of the piano's departure, which happened to be his next birthday, clandestinely placed the letter inside the packing-case, directed to his much-admired friend, being afraid to reveal the operation to his aunt Drusilla, lest she should discover his motive, and compel him to abandon his scheme.†   (source)
  • But Mrs. Rushworth was "that kind of woman"; foolish, vain, clandestine by nature, and far more attracted by the secrecy and peril of the affair than by such charms and qualities as he possessed.†   (source)
  • Probably, the Master-at-arms' clandestine persecution of Billy was started to try the temper of the man; but it had not developed any quality in him that enmity could make official use of or even pervert into plausible self-justification; so that the occurrence at the mess, petty if it were, was a welcome one to that peculiar conscience assigned to be the private mentor of Claggart.†   (source)
  • But ultimately, it proved to be a clandestine spring rain, and more and more, the longer it lasted, disclosed itself as such.†   (source)
  • No more guileless-looking cabinet particulier ever offered its shelter to a clandestine couple: Archer fancied he saw the sense of its reassurance in the faintly amused smile with which Madame Olenska sat down opposite to him.†   (source)
  • And, indeed, a clandestine compulsion to take the presence of that personality into consideration killed the spark that normally leaped between the two—it was reminiscent of the dull, lifeless feeling that overcomes you when an electrical outlet turns out to be dead.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, Mrs. Alden, learning thus casually of the odd and seemingly clandestine nature of this relationship, was not only troubled but puzzled, so concerned was she for Roberta's happiness.†   (source)
  • The idea of the stud-farm and the brougham horse had germinated in Archer's mind on the very day when the Emerson Sillerton invitation had first been mentioned; but he had kept it to himself as if there were something clandestine in the plan, and discovery might prevent its execution.†   (source)
  • They would never understand or tolerate this clandestine relationship with Clyde—so necessary to him apparently, as he had explained—so troublesome and even disgraceful to her from one point of view, and yet so precious.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless Roberta was nervous lest Grace should be associating her and Clyde in her mind in some clandestine way, and she decided to be doubly cautious in regard to Clyde—to feign a distance she did not feel.†   (source)
  • For once she had come to this complete emotional understanding with Clyde, she saw no way of meeting him except in this very clandestine way and that so very rarely and uncertainly that she could not say when there was likely to be another meeting.†   (source)
  • For about this entire clandestine procedure there hung, as she saw it, a sense of something untoward and even sinful, and then on top of it all, quarreling and then breaking with Grace Marr, her one girl friend here thus far, and the Newtons on account of it, when, as she well knew, it was entirely due to Grace that she was here at all.†   (source)
  • And Sondra, realizing that in part her mother was right, yet being so drawn to Clyde was now determined to deceive her, at least to the extent of being as clandestinely free with Clyde as she could contrive.†   (source)
  • Under any circumstances it would have been an unwelcome alliance; but to have it so clandestinely formed, and such a period chosen for its completion, placed Julia's feelings in a most unfavourable light, and severely aggravated the folly of her choice.†   (source)
  • "Is it alive?" said Maggie, whose imagination had settled for the moment on the idea that Tom kept a ferret clandestinely.†   (source)
  • But just as it was a gratification to him to be handsomely dressed, just so it was a private satisfaction to him (he enjoyed it very clandestinely) to have interposed, pecuniarily, in a scheme of pleasure.†   (source)
  • If it could not be done with Mr. Mills's sanction and concurrence, I besought a clandestine interview in the back kitchen where the Mangle was.†   (source)
  • Clandestinely we made a few bushels of first-rate blasting powder, and I superintended my armorers while they constructed a lightning-rod and some wires.†   (source)
  • But Lavinia will take it up, and talk to her about it; perhaps, even, if her taste for clandestine operations doesn't prevail with her, she will talk to me about it.†   (source)
  • Wildeve's clandestine plan with her was to take a little gravel in his hand and hold it to the crevice at the top of the window shutter, which was on the outside, so that it should fall with a gentle rustle, resembling that of a mouse, between shutter and glass.†   (source)
  • The truth is, that the ceremony had been clandestinely performed some years back; although the news of Mr. Raggles' marriage was first brought to Miss Crawley by a little boy and girl of seven and eight years of age, whose continual presence in the kitchen had attracted the attention of Miss Briggs.†   (source)
  • …Perkins and Mrs. Piper compare opinions on the subject of the young lady of professional celebrity who assists at the Harmonic Meetings and who has a space to herself in the manuscript announcement in the window, Mrs. Perkins possessing information that she has been married a year and a half, though announced as Miss M. Melvilleson, the noted siren, and that her baby is clandestinely conveyed to the Sol's Arms every night to receive its natural nourishment during the entertainments.†   (source)
  • It was in these terms that Mrs. Penniman depicted to herself her niece's errand, which, viewed in this light, gratified her sense of the picturesque only a shade less strongly than the idea of a clandestine marriage.†   (source)
  • Mr. Crawford was no longer the Mr. Crawford who, as the clandestine, insidious, treacherous admirer of Maria Bertram, had been her abhorrence, whom she had hated to see or to speak to, in whom she could believe no good quality to exist, and whose power, even of being agreeable, she had barely acknowledged.†   (source)
  • If YOU think so,' said I. 'I am poorly qualified to judge of such matters,' replied Agnes, with a modest hesitation, 'but I certainly feel — in short, I feel that your being secret and clandestine, is not being like yourself.'†   (source)
  • When Mrs. Bute Crawley, numbed with midnight travelling, and warming herself at the newly crackling parlour fire, heard from Miss Briggs the intelligence of the clandestine marriage, she declared it was quite providential that she should have arrived at such a time to assist poor dear Miss Crawley in supporting the shock—that Rebecca was an artful little hussy of whom she had always had her suspicions; and that as for Rawdon Crawley, she never could account for his aunt's infatuation…†   (source)
  • You have been carrying on a clandestine relation with Stephen Guest,—as you did before with another.†   (source)
  • So, the very next day I exposed my hidden schools, my mines, and my vast system of clandestine factories and workshops to an astonished world.†   (source)
  • Stimulated by the silent monitor within, and by a no less touching and appealing monitor without — to whom I will briefly refer as Miss W. — I entered on a not unlaborious task of clandestine investigation, protracted — now, to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief, over a period exceeding twelve calendar months.†   (source)
  • …by trifles—and of the guilty couple—she liked to think of poor Catherine and her suitor as the guilty couple—being shuffled away in a fast-whirling vehicle to some obscure lodging in the suburbs, where she would pay them (in a thick veil) clandestine visits, where they would endure a period of romantic privation, and where ultimately, after she should have been their earthly providence, their intercessor, their advocate, and their medium of communication with the world, they should…†   (source)
  • …you vow solemnly to me, with your hand on my father's Bible, that you will never have another meeting or speak another word in private with Philip Wakem, or you refuse, and I tell my father everything; and this month, when by my exertions he might be made happy once more, you will cause him the blow of knowing that you are a disobedient, deceitful daughter, who throws away her own respectability by clandestine meetings with the son of a man that has helped to ruin her father.†   (source)
  • Whether the torments of absence were softened by a clandestine correspondence, let us not inquire.†   (source)
  • The value of the back lands which some of the provinces are clandestinely deprived of, by the unjust extension of the limits of Canada, valued only at five pounds sterling per hundred acres, amount to upwards of twenty-five millions, Pennsylvania currency; and the quit-rents at one penny sterling per acre, to two millions yearly.†   (source)
  • …to me; that I could not answer for my feelings for a week in advance, much less to the end of my life; that to cut me off from all natural and unconstrained relations with the rest of my fellow creatures would narrow and warp me if I submitted to it, and, if not, would bring me under the curse of clandestinity; that, finally, my proposals to her were wholly unconnected with any of these matters, and were the outcome of a perfectly simple impulse of my manhood towards her womanhood.†   (source)
  • THE SINS OF THE PAST: (In a medley of voices) He went through a form of clandestine marriage with at least one woman in the shadow of the Black church.†   (source)
  • Negative: he omitted to mention the clandestine correspondence between Martha Clifford and Henry Flower, the public altercation at, in and in the vicinity of the licensed premises of Bernard Kiernan and Co, Limited, 8, 9 and 10 Little Britain street, the erotic provocation and response thereto caused by the exhibitionism of Gertrude (Gerty), surname unknown.†   (source)
  • …and flute, guitar and piano: legal scrivenery or envelope addressing: biweekly visits to variety entertainments: commercial activity as pleasantly commanding and pleasingly obeyed mistress proprietress in a cool dairy shop or warm cigar divan: the clandestine satisfaction of erotic irritation in masculine brothels, state inspected and medically controlled: social visits, at regular infrequent prevented intervals and with regular frequent preventive superintendence, to and from female…†   (source)
  • And while I paus'd it came to me that what he really sang for was not there only, Nor for his mate nor himself only, nor all sent back by the echoes, But subtle, clandestine, away beyond, A charge transmitted and gift occult for those being born.†   (source)
  • And the spoyling a man of his goods, by Terrour of death, or wounds, than by clandestine surreption.†   (source)
  • And by clandestine Surreption, than by consent fraudulently obtained.†   (source)
  • The parson said that Mr. —— had said something to him of it; that he hoped it was no clandestine business; that he seemed to be a grave gentleman, and he supposed madam was not a girl, so that the consent of friends should be wanted.†   (source)
  • The bargain being thus struck, the lad turned aside into the Bristol road, and Sophia set forward in pursuit of Jones, highly contrary to the remonstrances of Mrs Honour, who had much more desire to see London than to see Mr Jones: for indeed she was not his friend with her mistress, as he had been guilty of some neglect in certain pecuniary civilities, which are by custom due to the waiting-gentlewoman in all love affairs, and more especially in those of a clandestine kind.†   (source)
  • It might be expected that I should give some account of the nature of the wicked practices of this woman, in whose hands I was now fallen; but it would be too much encouragement to the vice, to let the world see what easy measures were here taken to rid the women's unwelcome burthen of a child clandestinely gotten.†   (source)
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