I want no hole-and-corner confession, which may afterwards be useless, but an open avowal before the most approved witnesses. |
Her acquittal in the law court would be as nothing to her if it must be followed by an avowal of her guilt to her own son! |
At the foot of the altar, She stipulates that he make the humble avowal of his unworthiness. |
But he has done so with a resolute trimness, a disciplined avowal to say the poem only as it says itself, and no more. |
In the provinces, to live in another person's house is an avowal of poverty. |
On the morning after her avowal it was ten o'clock before Clotilde left her room. |