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secretiveness
1. The general sentiment in Whitehall surrounding this incident is one of apprehension and secretiveness
2. “That’s very good, Charles,” Feltus said through pursed lips, hoping the secretiveness of what the houseman had seen would be beneficial in protecting him given the usually loose lips of the staff who could unwittingly be lured into revealing important information by the cunning killer
3. Was he some kind of undercover agent? That would explain his secretiveness and why he never offered too much information about himself
4. Do you recall roughly when this new secretiveness started?”
5. "The piece was hissed," the comedian who says: "I've made a hit," the philosopher who says: "Phenomenal triplicity," the huntsman who says: "Voileci allais, Voileci fuyant," the phrenologist who says: "Amativeness, combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My shootingiron," the cavalry-man who says: "My turkey-cock," the fencingmaster who says: "Tierce, quarte, break," the printer who says: "My shooting-stick and galley,"—all, printer, fencing-master, cavalry dragoon, infantry-man, phrenologist, huntsman, philosopher, comedian, playwright, sheriff, gambler, stockbroker, and merchant, speak slang
6. Such secretiveness could not flourish without misapprehensions
7. Before opening it, he dried the envelope with his handkerchief, taking care not to smear the ink in which his name was written, and as he did so it occurred to him that the secret was no longer shared by two people but by three, at least, for whoever had delivered it must have noticed that only three weeks after the death of her husband, the Widow Urbino was writing to someone who did not belong to her world, and with so much urgency that she did not use the regular mails and so much secretiveness that she had ordered that it not be handed to anyone but slipped under the door instead, as if it were an anonymous letter
8. Moreover, having once lit upon my precious idea of “frankness,” and being bent upon applying it to the full in myself, I thought the quiet, confiding nature of Lubotshka guilty of secretiveness and dissimulation simply because she saw no necessity for digging up and examining all her thoughts and instincts