1 He came late, at the confidential hour when the tea-table still lingers by the fire in friendly expectancy; and his manner showed a readiness to adapt itself to the intimacy of the occasion.
2 As Lily's silence left him with this allusion on his hands, he added with a confidential smile: "Gus Trenor has promised to come to town on purpose."
3 How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends.
4 I was only alive to the condensed confidential comfortableness of sharing a pipe and a blanket with a real friend.
5 But he was stopped on the way by a portly sperm whale, that begged a few moments' confidential business with him.
6 He entreated her to bear in mind that the disclosures of the afternoon were strictly confidential.
7 Her talk grew familiar and confidential.
8 There were assuredly wonderful mysteries about the developing of these things; and then, becoming confidential, Mr. Finnegan proceeded to tell of some discoveries of his own.
9 A long and confidential communication now succeeded, during which the young man received some additional insight into his duty, from the experience and native acuteness of his commander, and then the former took his leave.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 15 10 "Now, they say," said Haley, assuming a candid and confidential air, "that this kind o trade is hardening to the feelings; but I never found it so."
11 But at last they got on quite confidential terms.
12 He intended to leave his daughter under the care of a confidential servant, to follow at her leisure with the greater part of his property, which had not yet arrived at Leghorn.
13 The more I made faces and gestures to him to do it, the more confidential, argumentative, and polite, he persisted in being to Me.
14 What I have to do as the confidential agent of another, I do.
15 We are in our private and personal capacities, and we have been engaged in a confidential transaction before to-day.