Word: confesses
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...disappearing up the stairs, her father came out of the office, and, without appearing to notice me, followed after. I confess I was somewhat taken aback: the office windows opened on the front balcony, and it was not improbable that he might have witnessed the some what startling finale to the evening's comedy. However, it could not be helped. As to his favor or disfavor, he was always a moody, eccentric sort of man, and I had no reason to think that he had ever liked me better than I had liked...
...that there is a prospect of another step from a conservative to a liberal policy. There is no reason for making Juniors take fourteen hours, except that they always have done so. We cannot see why Seniors should take fewer hours than Juniors are obliged to, unless the Faculty confess that the work previous to the Senior year has been too much, and that some opportunity for making up the conditions necessitated by too many requirements is due to the average student. We should be inclined to advise the Sophomores to follow the example set by the Juniors, if Rhetoric...
...handsome; let me confess so much at the outset: but I have been called pretty. Young Harry Thornberg, - who is married now; I never could endure him, though people said I hadn't the ghost of a chance, which, I take it, means the whole body of one, - he once remarked, when some one rallied him on his attachment for me, "A pretty wife she'd make!" His heart was touched, I know...
...might tell you that you have an abnormal leaning - towards certain mad tendencies. You crook out your elbows; you part your hair in the middle; you brush it down flat upon your temples (such foolishness as school-girls only used to be capable of); you never by any chance confess an interest in anything except tennis and Germans. Indifference, I believe you call it. But goodness preserve me from such a disposition! it is but a form of insanity which would in the end bring us back to the condition of barbarians; their indifference is but the acknowledgment of ignorance...
When you'll confess you cannot mark...