1 Without uttering a word, they bandaged his eyes with a care that showed their apprehensions of his committing some indiscretion.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor. 2 I daresay you know, like everybody else, that once, many years ago, I was guilty of an indiscretion.
3 Yet there must have been some marked display of attentions to her cousin, there must have been some strong indiscretion, since her correspondent was not of a sort to regard a slight one.
4 Boris inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without indiscretion, one might ask about our plans.
5 There were a thousand chances to one against her meeting anybody, but one could never tell, and she always paid for her rare indiscretions by a violent reaction of prudence.
6 How could he forget that in his Island days, Queequeg, for one, must certainly have been guilty of some murderous, convivial indiscretions.